NFL Salaries/Contracts

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Hey everyone, d D Kinkabwala, joined as always by the fabulous Mike Yam. I will take fabulous. I will take any positive, glowing adjective that you are willing to throw my way at d You know, I feel like if you've been up since two am, Mike, then even if I just said the chipper Mike, yam, you would have been happy. That might have been the more impressive adjective to use, because you're right, and people, by the way, I am not like the party animal. I've kind of

aged out of that. I am doing the Will Selva shift with the very early morning updates on NFL Network. So I don't want people thinking, hey, I've been up since who I am because I can't sleep or anything kind of crazy. Yeah, people, no one would think that. Yeah, I'm okay with that. I'll own it all right. But as we talk about fun times, good times, we have to talk about a fun football movie that came out in and gave us probably one of the most fun

quotable lines of any sports film ever. So Mike, come on, give it to us. What am I talking about? Show me the money? Sorry, that's as good as it's going to get. That's as good as I have to say for being up since two am. That is really good, Mike. Right there. I might need you to record that for my ringtone that would scare everyone around you. Of course, there are any of our listeners who are wondering where

exactly that's from. It is Jerry McGuire, who, of course the football agent who is trying to keep his top client, Cuba Gooding Jr. And that leads us into today's NFL Explained topic, contracts. So Mike, let's go ahead and touch on the history of the collective bargaining agreements, which players make the most money. We can take a look at whether or not teams spend too much money on quarterbacks, and look into some of the craziest contract incentives of

all time. And we'll see, Mike, if you can maybe parlay that into a bit part when Jerry McGuire too comes out, you know, please bring that on, by the way, A little side tangent here. I don't know if I would have screamed like that on a normal show when I record from home, because I might scare my neighbors. I am in a soundproof vo booth where no one

can actually hear me. But as if far some of the contracts are concerned, I think the best place to start is the collective bargaining agreements because that's essentially what determines the wages, and it's a little bit higher than minimum wage. It's really long, it's a complex history, So

just the basic timeline here. Nineteen the NFL first recognized the NFL Players Association or the NFL p A. Now, the NFL was clearly growing in popularity, and players actually threatened to strike in order to get increased salaries, pensions, and benefits. A deal was struct shortly thereafter, which increased rookie salaries to get this nine thousand dollars and veteran salaries to ten k. And we're also setting a little bit of a coin on the side for some of

those pension plans. Okay, So fast forward two years to nineteen seventy after the merger, and there would have actually be a number of strikes and lawsuits of our compensation and free agency and the use of replacement players in general animosity between the league and players that got us all the way to n when the two sides decided, you know what, maybe we could get a little bit further if we play nice, and so the c b A then included unrestricted free agency and a thirty eight

percent increase in player salaries. That's what I'm talking about. I have to be honest, Mike, I've never had a thirty eight percent salary increase in my life. Yes, here, I'm thinking that's that's the way to go. I need some of those dudes kind of negotiating my contract again. Again, that was after the two sides decided, you know what, when we are in this together, we can be more successful. Yeah, it makes sense. Everyone's going to play nice. Then everyone

gets a little bit of extraor something something. But the league, once again the popularity actually got the increase in salary cap from thirty four point six million in ninety four to get this A and twenty million in twenty eleven. So that's when the owners and players decided upon a new collective bargaining agreement, which clearly makes sense when you're talking about a boost in terms of that salary cap.

The big change in that year was that the owners were able to reduce player revenue from fifty three to forty eight percent, and the players and impacted. Basically, we're rookies. So I'll give you an example here, because I know that's a lot to chew on. We'll take Sam Bradford. The first overall pick in his contracts six years, seventy eight million, with a then record fifty million of that guaranteed.

One year later, Cam Newton's like, dude, I just wish I was a little bit older, just a little bit older, the number one overall pick. That's Mr Newton got the new maximum rookie deal of four years, twenty two million, all guaranteed. So check this out. The signing bonuses of the first round picks in worked two hundred million more than the total rookie contracts in eleven. We'll get into quarterback pay a little bit later, but as you can see, rookies got a little bit of the raw end of

the deal across the board. Yeah, and so I'm not sure that I'm buying that, Mike, because let's remember, they haven't played a snap in the league yet, they haven't taken themselves. And this actually meant more financial protection for the veterans who had put in time in the league. So after that initial rookie contract of four years, for example, a veteran in his fifth year in two will now make a minimum of just over a million dollars. So before we get into all of that, though, before I

overcomplicate all that. We should really talk about the salary cap. The NFL has what's called a hard cap, which means you cannot ever, ever, ever, ever, for any reason, ever go over what the cap is. The NBA has a soft cap, which more or less allows teams to hold onto players on their rosters. In Major League Baseball doesn't have a cap at all. It's just a luxury at tax. So if you have a lot of money, you can pay more in salary and then you just pay at tax.

In there you go. The NFL salary cap is calculated by multiplying the league's revenue by the players share that was agreed upon in the collective bargaining agreement. Remember we mentioned earlier that that's forty eight percent right now, and by all accounts, even though the cap is not officially set for a few weeks, still twenty two is set to have a salary cap in the range of about two hundred and eight million dollars. So, okay, in two thousand eleven, you told us the salary cap was one

hundred and twenty million. Two thousand twenty two, the salary cap is set to be two hundred and eight million. That's a pretty big increase. So let's talk about some of these veterans and get into the biggest contracts in the league right now. The highest average per year salaries in the league right now, of course, go to quarterbacks. Patrick Mahomes he's averaging forty five million dollars a year, Josh Allen forty three million dollars year, Dak Prescott forty

million dollars a year. The top fourteen paid quarterbacks in the NFL are right now, averaging thirty four million dollars a year. So what about other positions? What's the mike? If you think about it, what's the most important position. If you're building a team. Number one has to be quarterback, then what's number two? Give me a guy that can get to the quarterback. Good job, that's how you build a team. So t J. Watt, he's the highest paid

defender right now, making twenty eight million dollars a year. Now, the top two non quarterbacks on offense are DeAndre Hopkins, who's slept to make twenty seven point three million dollars, and a guy who has charged with protecting the quarterback that's tackled, Trent Williams, who's set to make twenty three million dollars, but of course the most actual cash. Now these are numbers. This is like all tied up in bonus and this and that, and as we know, teams

can maneuver money. The most actual cash that any NFL player ever collected in one year in one check, and he guesses player in a state with no income tax. Well to states that come to mind with no state income tax, Texas and Florida. So I will go, we're talking quarterbacks, so I think it's probably pretty obvious. Then maybe Dak Prescott, you are correct. Cut a check for seventy five million dollars last year. Seventy five million, Show me the money, that's what I'm talking about. I'll take

that coin. Uh, you know, it's kind of crazy though, you know of look seventy five million cutting check like that's that's enormous and it's huge. There's one deal in particular, when it became public, got so much hype around, not on the NFL, but just business circles and just I think people were kind of floored by that number. Because you mentioned Patrick Mahomes averaging about forty five million per

year the contract. I think it's kind of important to take a holistic view because people are throwing out that phrase like half a billion dollars. Mahomes actually signed the largest contract in sports history in remember it was that ten year contract extension where four hundred and fifty million, which also included a hundred and twenty three million base salary.

Sixty three million of that was guaranteed. So realistically, here the Chiefs could bail from the contract in when mahomes roster bonus becomes fully guaranteed, that's a year ahead of time instead of two. So the contract actually includes a number of guaranteed mechanisms which essentially forces the Chiefs to pay expensive buyouts to get out of the deal really early.

But the point is a dd I mean like, this is a lot of cash, and it does make things relatively complicated right for agents and teams as they're trying to manage that cap. So for Mahomes, the sixty three million, it sounds big, But how about this, it doesn't even top the list of fully guaranteed money. You mentioned a little bit earlier, that seventy million dollar check that Dak

Prescott got. Uh, there's actually another quarterback that got a little bit war change a deity when it comes to fully guaranteed contracts, and that dude is an absolute gun slinger. You know who I'm talking about, of course, my son's favorite quarterback, Josh Allen. Oh I didn't realize that that was a kink of wild household favorite. Well, here's the thing. Like Josh Allen, Baker Mayfield, Lamar Jackson, they're all the same draft class, and Josh Allen is the first one

to sign a long term deal. And part of that is because Josh Allen was not holding the bill's hostage for every single last penny he could get. I remember talking with several members of their front office who said that Josh Allen recognized a team has a finite amount of money, which is when we talk about the salary cap,

and he knows that he needs pieces around him. And so while he wanted what he was worth, he didn't necessarily need to get every last penny of what he was worth, which is well thought out for a young quarterback. Although you know we got a hundred million coming your way, that doesn't you know, You're you're still able to go and eat um. But the point is there's some more context here on just how complex some of these different types of contracts and guaranteed money can get. So you've

got full guarantees, which is guaranteed at the signing. That money fully guaranteed when you sign the deal. It's guaranteed for skill cap and injury purposes. So an example here Kirk Cousins three year, eighty four million dollar contract with

the Vikings fully guaranteed for skill, cap and injury. What I mean by that you've got the skill guarantee is if a player's contract is terminated, in the team's opinion, he does not have the skill level so to speak, anymore, that player will be entitled to any money that is

protected by a skill guarantee. You've got a cap guarantee as well, which is basically, if a player contract is terminated so that a team can get under the salary cap, sign a free agent or re sign one of its current players, that player is entitled to any money that is protected by a cap guarantee. And then you got the injury guarantee. And this is big in a sport

like football. So if for player's release but is currently unable to perform football duties like doesn't pass to physical for example, as a result of the team activities or something that happened to him while he was lame. That player is actually entitled to any money in his contract

protected against injury. The injury only guarantee is actually the most common in terms of partially guaranteed money, and Mike, like we were talking about earlier, there are certain teams that have not traditionally offered guaranteed money beyond the first year of a deal, or have not offered all three guarantees beyond the first year of a deal. And you

mentioned t J. Watt earlier. That was certainly something that the Steelers had to address because prior to t J. Watt they did not offer money under all three guarantees beyond the first year of a deal, and of course to sign the defensive player of the year, which is what t J. Watt was, they had to adjust that. Yeah, you know, just kind of think about how front offices has changed. And we mentioned a little bit earlier, DD you took us through it. You explained the caps in

the different sports. You know, the NBA and their capologists and you know NFL front office littered with those guys that understand not only the cap but how to manage some of those things. Like those are real jobs for for people, because this thing does get really complicated for sure, and when you're thinking about how you push money into the future or not and what is dead money and this and that. But anyway, since we are talking about guarantees,

let me guarantee you this. We'll be back after the break to talk more about the way the positions breakdown and who gets paid the most in what positions end up fighting for table scraps, and because we love random trivia Mike, we of course have to talk about some of the most unusual contract incentives, including one player who missed out on a one million dollar bonus because of one penalty flag. All that and more when we come

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dollars a year according to spot rack. Now, even though you and I both agree that the second position we would choose on our team is the guy that eats the quarterback, it's actually the guy that protects the quarterback, who makes the second highest average left tackles on average, bringing seven point nine million dollars a year. But you want to know who brings in the least amount of money besides the punter, and the long snapper and the

tight end. I want to drop like kickers, I would think, well, keeping out the special teams guys, running backs on average make just two point four million dollars. The running back average this past year, according to spot rack, was just two point four million dollars a year. Interesting because if you look at the last seven or eight Super Bowls, the starting running back for each Super Bowl winning team,

nobody made more than two million dollars. I feel like I need to scream show me the money again to get that going for that position group. Yeah, but in any case, guards, kickers, everyone else makes more on average than are running back except for the punter, the long snapper,

and the tight end. Well, if you think about it, which is kind of surprising on the tight end considering although I guess if you look at the position collectively, there's some stars at the top, But I guess as you go down the roster and the depth, I don't know, something tells me the way the game is evolving, those tight ends might be on track at some point in the near future surpassing some of those running back totals.

But indeed, you know, we keep bringing up the quarterbacks and I think one of the biggest questions is whether or not they should be the guy that gets paid these incredible amounts of money. The first thing to note, though, is the QB with the highest cap hit or the amount of money on the team's books for that season has actually missed the playoffs seven of the last nine seasons. The exception Peyton Manning in twelve and his brother Eli in Both of those players were actually knocked out those

seasons in the first round. But on top of that, that goes back to what I was saying about Josh Allen. When you think about Tom Brady. Tom Brady was never the highest paid quarterback in the NFL because he recognized, if there's a finite amount of money to spread around, let's spread it around. And it makes a lot of sense from that perspective when you just look at some

of the numbers here. But on top of that, since the c b A in that year, no quarterback has actually won a Super Bowl on a one hundred million dollar contract. Hey, Now, because we always think about dudes getting paid a lot of money. The largest annual salary by a Super Bowl winning quarterback the guy that didd just dropped Tom Brady at million. So in fact, four of the last eight Super Bowl winning quarterbacks were on

their rookie contracts. So that includes Patrick Mahomes, Russell Wilson, Joe Flacco, Carson Wentz who was the starter before getting injured late for the Eagles and the will throw him, Joe Burrow, Jared Goff, Colin Kaepernick, all other examples of quarterbacks on their rookie contract to lead their team to the Super Bowl. So when you look at qbs on their rookie deals versus those veteran guys on big money deals,

the numbers are a little surprising. Of the eleven quarterbacksleven who went on to sign long term deals with the same team, they actually had a lower winning percentage and dramatically fewer playoff appearances and fewer playoff wins. So those quarterbacks on the rookie deals eighteen and sixteen in the playoffs, so two games over five hundred versus six and nine in the playoffs following their veteran deals with that same team.

So once again, I don't know, like is that just an age thing, like you're not aging well in your just like I don't know how else to to explain some of those numbers and results of duty again, Mike, because you need multiple guys to win. Football is a team sport. You need to pay players all across the field. And if you are spending the majority of your money on just one position, then what about the guys that he's throwing to. What about the guys that he's handing

off to. What about the guys who are protecting him. What about the guys on the other side of the ball who are getting the ball back to him. Again, it's a team sport. You need to be able to have money to pay everyone. And if your quarterback is taking whatever of your cap, then obviously your entire team is not going to be constructed as well as it possibly him be Adity not done talking about the dollars and cents of contracts, the best the worst deals when

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Since we're talking about quarterbacks. You always like to throw the questions my way. I'm gonna throw one your way. Active players heading into the two seasons who have made the most money Number one on the lists. Any guests on who you think that might actually be. For sure, it's going to be one of the oldest quarterback in the league. So it's either Aaron Rodgers or Matt Ryan. And I'm gonna guess it's by Ryan because I don't think Aaron Rodgers has ever had a mega deal where

we all went crazy like we did over Matt Ryan. Yeah, well, Matt, it's actually close, but you're right. I mean it is Matt Ryan two hundred and sixty seven million, Aaron Rodgers two hundred and sixty three point six million, so not all that far behind. And just to throw out a couple of names that the top four other our quarterbacks Matt Ryan, Aaron Rodgers, Matthew Stafford, and Russell Wilson Larry

Fitzgerald actually checking in at number five. So just some context there on some of these players add, it's generally speaking, guests as the quarterbacks. Occasionally you'll get some other players thrown into the mix. You know what's sort of crazy. I was there in two thousand and twelve when kirk Cousins was drafted by Mike Shanahan after Washington had already taken Robert Griffin. Kirk Cousins in his lifetime has made one hundred and sixty one point seven million dollars. Oh,

it is good to be the king at now. Of course, all of these guys had some performance incentives and bonuses written into their contracts, and look just this past season we saw a few examples of players who needed big games in the last week to hit some of those bonuses. And how about friends looking out for friends like Tom Brady coming off the sidelines to make sure that his buddy Rob Gronkowski hit a certain number of yards and receptions on the year to get an extra one million dollars.

Remember that one, Mike, I totally do. When you just said one million, I just got like one of those uh like you know, Austin powers like million. I wish I could do it. Well I can't, but yeah, I do remember that moment for sure, And you're right. It is friends looking out for some of their friends in a good way. Yes, well, all right, how about this

one Stefon Diggs. He needed six catches in the last game of the year to get an extra seven hundred and fifty thousand added to his twenty went to two base and an extra eight hundred thousand added to his three base. He got nine catches. I'm open, I'm open, I'm open open all game long. And then, of course, rams Super Bowl champion Andrew Whitworth he rode off into

the sunset, which what a career. But again, riding off into the sunset, not just with that elusive ring and that amazing moment, but also five hundred thousand dollars for making the playoffs, five thousand more for winning at least one playoff game, and another five thousand dollars for winning the Super Bowl. Damn, I'll take that. I do love the fact that some of these guys just look out for each other and once again, like that's kind of awesome.

It's the team chemistry thing, it's the friendship thing, and it's just getting a little extra cash in everyone's pocket. But you have to think these guys are really very much aware and look to actually help each other out. One of the craziest instances of a player failing to reach an incentive got to go back to two thousand eight. Packers running back Ryan Grant needed to reach one thousand, two hundred fifty yards to finish in the top five

in the conference and get a million dollar bonus. Second half of a week seventeen game against the Lines, it looked like he was just going to hit the mark a d R touchdown run boom off to the races. That one was called back he was ruled down by contact on the replay, Grant fell short of making that mark by forty seven yards. Forty seven yards, missing out on a cool one million dollars, and you know that's so tough. I hate stories like that, So let's move

on to some of the weird clauses, Mike. One of my favorites is when Rick Meyer was drafted number two overall in nineteen by the Seahawks. The wording in his contract including that he was to be paid all of his contract up to and including the end of the world. I love that. So I don't know if he had

some sort of a bunker if the world ended. And remember Kyle Shanahan did bring up that he didn't know of the world would exist on the following Saturday at some point this past year, so maybe it was just you know, following along that we should account for any and all possibilities. But I will tell you this, Paul Taglabu and the NFL p A would not allow the wording of up to and including the end of the world in any future contracts after Rick Myers. Whoever that

agent was, well done. Kudos to you, because I think there's a lot of agents in which they had that foresight. With all the COVID stuff and player contracts and broadcaster contracts, you heard a lot about that stuff. That little forced masure clause in that contract, so well done by whoever that agent was. Um, all right, let's go a little

patriot way here. New England had a weight clause in the contracts of defensive tackles Allen Branch and Vince wolf Work that would pay him four hundred K and three hundred K, respectively, if they stayed below a certain number of pounds. Boy, if that's not incentive to to get onto the bike and get a little extra burn, I don't know what is. But the same thing was done

by the Seahawks and Eddie Lacey. His contracts stipulated that if the running back could get his weight from two sixty seven to forty five and keep it there to the season, he'd earned three eight five K. Man, I just got a peloton for Christmas. I would be on that bike non stop. If someone's like, yo, stayandard this way, come in your way, sign me up. I made that sort of incentive right now. Let me tell you, especially

at the end of the season. Now, Mike, before we get into some of the worst contracts in NFL history, in some ways that players do sometimes get a little bit left out screwed. Let's hit you with one of the happy endings. So quarterback Nick Foles. You mentioned Carson Wentz beforehand. Nick Foles had an incentive in twenty eighteen that would have given him one million dollars if the Eagles went to the playoffs and he played thirty three

per cent of the Eagles snaps. Unfortunately, he suffered bruise ribs during the final game of the season. He ended this season by playing just thirty two percent of the Eagles place but he was given the one million dollar incentive anyway, So it is occasionally stunny in Philadelphia. Yeah, not moving Santa Claus at least on a day like that. All right, Why am I getting like all the bad news here? I feel like you're all the positivity and I'm like negative Nelly over here. Hey, let's just call

it like it is. No right, all right, let's a couple of the the worst contracts in NFL history on the player's side here. Ricky Williams certainly comes to mind. We actually probably could do an entire podcast on how bad it was. For those who don't know don't remember, an extremely incentive laden deal that required Ricky to rack up big numbers to make the most amount of money, which of course, he never hit and walked away with probably only a fraction of what he could have made, so

that was a little bit of a buzz kill. And on the team side of handing out some bad deals, well, maybe the worst in NFL history the Washington football team the Commanders two thousand nine, defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth given a seven year deal worth one hundred million, including a then record forty one million and guaranteed cash. He ended

up starting in just twelve games in two seasons. Javal Walker remember him, the talented wide out six year, fifty five million dollar deal with the Raiders in two thousand eight. Dude had just fifteen receptions in two seasons with Oakland. Ouch Well, Mike, because I can't seem to stop talking about Nick Foles, who honestly as one of the nicest guys that I've ever covered. So let's just go back

to Nick Foles. Following that surprise Super Bowl run, the jack signed him to a four year, eighty eight million dollar deal with over forty million dollars in guarantees, but he only played with the Jaguars for one season. He had a record of owen four and ended up collecting quite a bit of money from Jacksonville. He yelled, show me the money, got the money and was able to bounce. Yeah, I can't see him yelling show me the money. It's just not that kind of He's definitely not that type

of dude. I'm with you. There another famous quarterback. I kind of remember when this one actually happened. A ton of hype, small sample size. Matt Flint Aaron Rodgers is back up in of him, tossed a franchise record six touchdowns when he was filling in for Rogers in the final game of the season. Get to three year contract worth over twenty million by Seattle in Flynn. Actually we remember this. I mean, there's a reason why Russell Wilson is out there, got beaten out. Wilson takes that job

in the preseason. The rest it's a rap. I will say this not always easy to admit when you're wrong and sort of like pivot here, But that franchise Pete Carroll, they deserve some credit. They realized Flynn not the dude. Despite the big contract. They went with the guy that could win of some football games. Well, it's tough, especially when you're committing that much money and Unfortunately, it's the quarterback position where so much money is committed and sometimes

it just doesn't work out. Look at the Bear signing Mike glennon three year, forty five million dollar deal in Bears Go one in three and Chicago said goodbye. And then of course look at brock Osweiler, I mean four year, seventy two million dollar contract with the Texans in thirty seven million of that Garon teed us Sweidler was shipped to the Browns the following season, and that was kind

of just a cap play more than anything. There's a lot of contracts add that we could sort of it could be dangerous, a bad rabbit hole, the best, the worst. We can do this for hours here, but would love to hear from some of our folks out there who are checking out the show. This week has actually been kind of cool a d D. I feel like you and I have been tagged on a bunch of tweets with people asking questions. Mail bag episode by the way

coming up around the corner. I've been tracking the questions. Can't thank you guys enough for the support. You can hit us up at a Kinkabala at Mike Underscore Yam if you've got a question that you just don't know who else to ask, we got you covered, and certainly our research team definitely does if we don't know the answer. But this was a lot of fun talking about some of these deals. DV. Well, sure if talking about other people's money is fun. I mean, I can tell you this.

My NFL network contract doesn't have any interesting incentives in it and no clauses that are surprising like this. Let's just say that I want the clause in my contract that's says if I show up smiling every day, I get a huge bonus for you. Isn't Well, we'll have some fun with that, um A. D D. Always great to be working with you and breaking down some of these numbers. Yeah, I can't wait until next week. All right, everybody,

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