(05-05-2021, 01:36 PM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote: [ -> ]Back in 2009 Matt Stafford was the last QB to sign a rookie #1 pick without the implemented rookie salary structure
This was the 2009 summary via google ...
"Matthew Stafford signed a 5 year, $135,000,000 contract with the Detroit Lions, including a $50,000,000 signing bonus, $92,000,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $27,000,000."
Google misled you. It truncated a very important detail: "on August 29, 2017"
Sam Bradford was the final rookie deal on the CBA without slotted rookie pay scale. Their numbers were similar, though.
Bradford: six-year, $78 million deal, which had $50 million of guarantees and a maximum value of $86 million
Stafford: six-year, $72M, with 41.7M guaranteed, max value $78M
(05-05-2021, 10:47 PM)ChrisJagBoy Wrote: [ -> ] (05-05-2021, 01:36 PM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote: [ -> ]Back in 2009 Matt Stafford was the last QB to sign a rookie #1 pick without the implemented rookie salary structure
This was the 2009 summary via google ...
"Matthew Stafford signed a 5 year, $135,000,000 contract with the Detroit Lions, including a $50,000,000 signing bonus, $92,000,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $27,000,000."
Man if 1st round QB contracts were really that bad back then, I see why teams would give guys a longer time to see what they could become. Thank god it's not like that now, imagine the cardinals if they had rosen on a contract anywhere near that and then had the top pick the following year, what would they have done.
Traded the pick for a huge return? Not like we have any example of that...except the 2012 darft.
(05-06-2021, 10:08 AM)Mikey Wrote: [ -> ] (05-05-2021, 10:47 PM)ChrisJagBoy Wrote: [ -> ]Man if 1st round QB contracts were really that bad back then, I see why teams would give guys a longer time to see what they could become. Thank god it's not like that now, imagine the cardinals if they had rosen on a contract anywhere near that and then had the top pick the following year, what would they have done.
Traded the pick for a huge return? Not like we have any example of that...except the 2012 darft.
They would still be stuck with Rosen. That is the point, lol.