5:50pm: Folk got $12MM over four years with $2.1MM guaranteed, tweets Joel Corry of CBSSports.com. His ’14 cap number is $3.6MM, a small increase over the ~$3.5MM it was with the franchise tag.
4:36pm: The Jets have re-signed kicker Nick Folk to a multi-year deal, according to Randy Lange of NewYorkJets.com.
Folk, who hit with the franchise tag in late February, had his his best season in a long time in 2013, hitting game-winning field goals in the season opener against Tampa Bay, on the road against Atlanta, and at home in overtime against New England. He remains among the NFL’s top three most accurate fourth-quarter kickers of the past 24 seasons, with his 92.2% career rate (47-for-51) trailing only Stephen Gostkowski (96.9%) and Denver’s Matt Prater (94.0%).
if his cap # actually went up I don’t get what the point is