Russel Wilson and Friends agree to deal.

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

What's most hilarious about this thread is that Wilson is now under contract with Seattle until the end of the 2019 season, making it a five year deal, not four.

If he sees every penny of this $87.5 million dollar deal, it'll average $17.5 million per.

That's a little different than $25 million per, except if you have remedial math skills like Hootie.

Those are the perks of signing someone to an extension. The player doesn't have to play for peanuts in the final year of his original contract and the team gets to spread out the cap hit/cost over more years.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

Those are the perks of signing someone to an extension. The player doesn't have to play for peanuts in the final year of his original contract and the team gets to spread out the cap hit/cost over more years.

Dane doesn't understand how to handle being wrong, which is odd, because it happens so frequently

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Hootie 2.0

Dane doesn't understand how to handle being wrong, which is odd, because it happens so frequently

There is no one that's wrong more frequently than you.

And he did not receive $25 million per nor $80 million guaranteed nor $110 million overall.

Shut the **** up, Hootie.

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

Those are the perks of signing someone to an extension. The player doesn't have to play for peanuts in the final year of his original contract and the team gets to spread out the cap hit/cost over more years.

whats his cap hit this year?

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

whats his cap hit this year?

I don't believe those details have been released yet

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

I don't believe those details have been released yet

but you are saying the bonus is spread out over more years because its an extension.


im not sure that true, he's still getting paid 1.5 million base this season by the looks of things

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

but you are saying the bonus is spread out over more years because its an extension.


im not sure that true, he's still getting paid 1.5 million base this season by the looks of things

There seems to be confusion about the contract details. I've read that the total value is $87.5 million with $60 million guaranteed, which averages to $21.9 million per.

But I've also read that this four year extension is tacked on to his 2015 season, locking him up until 2019, not 2018.

If that's the case, it's $17.5 million per year.

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

There seems to be confusion about the contract details. I've read that the total value is $87.5 million with $60 million guaranteed, which averages to $21.9 million per.

But I've also read that this four year extension is tacked on to his 2015 season, locking him up until 2019, not 2018.

If that's the case, it's $17.5 million per year.

im pretty sure its the latter.

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

There seems to be confusion about the contract details. I've read that the total value is $87.5 million with $60 million guaranteed, which averages to $21.9 million per.

But I've also read that this four year extension is tacked on to his 2015 season, locking him up until 2019, not 2018.

If that's the case, it's $17.5 million per year.

rappaport has a tweet that breaks it down by year.


its an extension. contract runs through 2019

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

rappaport has a tweet that breaks it down by year.


its an extension. contract runs through 2019

So then, on average, it's just $17.5 million per year.

Suck it, Hootie.

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

but you are saying the bonus is spread out over more years because its an extension.





im not sure that true, he's still getting paid 1.5 million base this season by the looks of things

The bonus will be spread over all years of the current contract, which includes the final year of his old contract.

So instead of having a, let's say, $1 million cap hit for 2015, a 1/5th portion of his signing bonus will accelerate and hit the cap this year alleviating some of the cap hit from later years.

When you're talking about divvying up a $31 million signing bonus over five or six years as opposed to four, the difference can wind up being pretty significant.