Here are the latest details from contracts recently agreed to around the NFL:
- Terron Armstead, T (Dolphins): Five years, $75MM. In addition to a $12MM signing bonus, Armstead’s $43.37MM guarantee includes his 2022 and ’23 base salaries ($1.1MM, $9MM), Aaron Wilson of ProFootballNetwork.com tweets. Armstead’s $13.25MM 2024 base salary is guaranteed for injury at signing. The deal includes $2.5MM-per-year incentives for playing time and Pro Bowl accolades, Wilson adds (on Twitter).
- Marquez Valdes-Scantling, WR (Chiefs): Three years, $30MM. Valdes-Scantling’s $18MM guaranteed includes a $6MM signing bonus and a fully guaranteed 2022 base salary ($2.56MM), Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk notes. The Chiefs have some flexibility in 2023. MVS has $6.4MM of his $8.6MM 2023 salary guaranteed for injury at signing; that shifts to a full guarantee if the wideout is on Kansas City’s roster on Day 3 of the 2023 league year. Valdes-Scantling’s $11.6MM 2024 base is nonguaranteed.
- Rasul Douglas, CB (Packers): Three years, $21MM. The Packers gave Douglas a $5.3MM signing bonus and have him tied to base salaries of $1.1MM, $2.25MM and $6.25MM, Wilson tweets. Douglas will collect a $2MM roster bonus if he is on Green Bay’s roster on Day 3 of the 2023 league year.
- Derek Barnett, DE (Eagles): Two years, $13.2MM. Barnett will see $7MM fully guaranteed, which includes $5.5MM in Year 1 and $1.5MM in Year 2, Jeff McLane of the Philadelphia Inquirer notes (Twitter links). The Eagles guaranteed $1.5MM of Barnett’s 2023 salary and will guarantee $2MM more of that $7.5MM figure if he is on their roster on Day 3 of the 2023 league year. There are $9MM in incentives available, Wilson tweets.
- Malcolm Butler, CB (Patriots): Two years, $9MM. The Patriots only guaranteed the recently unretired cornerback $750K, Ben Volin of the Boston Globe tweets. That comes via a $500K signing bonus and a $250K guarantee of Butler’s 2022 base salary. Butler’s cap numbers check in at $2.22MM and $2.75MM.
- Patrick Peterson, CB (Vikings): One year, $4MM. In addition to the $3.5MM guaranteed Peterson will collect, Wilson notes the Vikings included $1MM in playing-time and playoff incentives (Twitter link). The team tacked a void year onto the deal.
- Anthony Harris, S (Eagles): One year, $2.5MM. The Eagles are guaranteeing $1MM of Harris’ $2MM base salary, Wilson tweets.
- Jabrill Peppers, S (Patriots): One year, $2MM. The Patriots are giving Peppers a $300K signing bonus and guaranteeing his $1.1MM base salary, Tom Pelissero of NFL.com tweets. The deal includes $3MM in playing-time incentives.
Pats making smart cheap deals as per usual.
However they need to add more firepower at WR.
I’d suggest trading either TE, Smith or Henry plus NKeal Harry to either the giants for Galloday or the Broncos for either Sutton or Patrick.
Keep 1 of your TE’s, and upgrade at WR. Then atleast you have some kind of star or main option with Myers, Agholor and Bourne as your depth.
Can’t expect Mac Jones to be Tom Brady and get you to the playoffs throwing to deck chairs with next to no help in the running game either.
They have a solid run game.
Sorry Damien Harris is alright but he’s not amazing.
I didn’t say amazing. I said solid.
So why would the Broncos or Giants give up talented WR’s for deck chairs?
In the Giants’ case, they’d be giving away a lower quality receiver for a higher quality TE. I’m not sure how that deal benefits NE, but it would certainly help NYG.
As for the Broncos…there’s little reason for them to give up a talented WR for a continuing project and a TE when they already have a prospect in Okwegbunam to test out. The Pats would benefit immensely, but Denver seems to lose in that deal.
In the giants case they add a solid TE which they don’t have and give up an average WR in which they have a few. NE benefits by giving up 1 of their 2 TEs for an upgrade in a position they need.
In the broncos deal, they are less likely to want an upgrade at TE cause they have Okwe who looks promising but isn’t as good. Yet they do have a few WR and could have interest but doubt it.
Galloday for Smith, Harry and a 5th would be a good deal
It would be good for NYG, like I said. I highly doubt that anyone values Golladay at that level currently., and Jones doesn’t seem to rely on the deep go-get-em balls that Golladay made his name off. If the Giants are offered that deal, they should certainly take it, but I just don’t see how that’s a slam dunk upgrade for NE.
Derek Barnett is a massive overpay. The man commits more Roughing the Passer penalties than sacks.
Dumb penalties that always seem to bail the offense out and extend their drive. He’s been stealing $ for years and they go ahead and resign him? SMH
I mean, I agree, Barnett is mediocre most of the time, but that’s actually a pretty cheap deal. The Eagles tried to trade him and got no takers, so signing someone for depth who knows your system on a cheap two year deal isn’t that bad. Whomever else they’d have gotten to fill that role may have gotten more for the same production. It’s not like the Eagles will be handicapped by this contract if they want to move on later.