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That's a little higher AAV than I expected (I was thinking around $5 million/yr).
Good to have him back, but the difference between the $5 million and $6.5 million/season will start to add up after awhile.
And I do have some concerns with his durability over a full season. He's not a big guy and if he's someone you're going to try to get 75+% of the season's snaps out of, I question if he can hold up.
I also think the "Wow, we stole him stuff" is a bit odd. I mean he came off a MONSTER season in LA the year before. It was a career year for him and he was damn good. And the market just wasn't there for him so he came here on a fairly small 1 year deal. Maybe he took a little less to play here, but I doubt he was turning down $7 million last season to play here for $3.5.
His market just isn't terribly robust and never really has been. I don't think this is that much less than he'd have gotten on the open market. It's just a piece we managed to lock in place prior to the start of the FA period and that has some value in its own right.
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