(09-29-2021, 08:06 AM)Jaguarmeister Wrote:

(09-28-2021, 10:45 AM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote: Does this chart indicate CJ actually pocketed $13 million in Year 1 --- check out the Yearly Cash Column.  If that is the case, I can see why certain players just want to pack it up and move on with life (outside of football).

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/carolina-pan...son-47602/

Yes.  He got his base salary of $610k plus all of the signing bonus of $12.4 million all at once.  The team has to account for the signing bonus over the life of the contract unless the player is traded and then all of the remaining signing bonus gets accounted for in the year of the trade by the team.  You still have to factor in taxes so he didn't pocket $13 million, but he still pocketed a lot.

If that is the case, even after agent fees and taxes, he has a minimum of $6 million in the bank.  Most people work their entire lives to achieve $1 million so I can see how this dude from Miami could wake up and say ... I'm good.  I actually hope he feels content and moves on with life (and doesn't become and elite DB). Then, I'd consider this one of those things that no team could have seen.

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