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<blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 877699"><p>First of all, the 5th. year option salary is dependent on which round the player was drafted. If the player was a top 10 pick it's one amount; if he was drafted lower in the first round it's a lower amount. Had Clark been a top 10 pick like DeForest Buckner his pay would be $12.378 mil.</p><p></p><p>Why is there a 5th. year option? It is simply a matter of the 2011 CBA negotiation.</p><p></p><p>Start by blaming Matt Ryan, Matthew Stafford and ultimately Sam Bradford, drafted at #3 2008, #1 in 2009 and #1 in 2010, respectively. These guys landed whomping $70+ mil rookie contracts making them among the highest paid players in the league. Bradford was the straw that broke the camel's back, 5 years/$78 mil/$50 mil guaranteed. If that was not the largest guarantee in the league it was close to it. These guys set the high water marks in their respective draft years which was spilling over into contracts for a few other non-QB draftees getting $60 mil rookie contracts.</p><p></p><p>Under a hard cap, who are the losers when the players of the future will be taking down big money right out of the gate? The current players. Who votes for the CBA? The current players. This kind of thing is not uncommon in collective bargaining where the current union members vote to protect their personal interests at the expense of future members. For example, you might see current union members protecting their own pensions while conceding lower pensions for future members. In this case I don't think you could tag the current players as selling out their future brethren given the objectively excessive pay going to guys who've yet to take an NFL snap.</p><p></p><p>Of course owners were not happy shelling out veteran star money for guys who could as easily be busts as not. So there was an easy meeting of the minds: the rookie salary scale. Starting in 2011, each position in the draft has had a total contract value for the duration of the rookie deal. Further, all draftee contracts are for 4 years. There's a little wiggle room in how the money is spread out over those 4 years, a bigger signing bonus for up more up front cash might be a point of negotiation for example, but the salary scale doesn't leave much negotiation latitude.</p><p></p><p>I don't see where Burrow has signed yet so Kyler Murray as a point of comparison was the #1 pick in the 2019 draft. His rooke deal under the salary scale was for $35.6 mil for 4 years, with a $23.6 mil signing bonus, around half of Bradford's rookie deal. While 2010 was an uncapped year, the cap in 2009 was $123 and then $120 mil in 2011. With 63% cap inflation between now and then, Bradford's deal in 2019 dollars would have been something like 4 years/$102 mil/$82 mil guaranteed. Without that rookie salary cap is that what Kyler Murray's rookie deal would have looked like? That's where it was heading, but I digress.</p><p></p><p>In short, the 5th. year option can be viewed as an extension of the rookie salary scale applicable to 1st. rounders as a team option, something extra tagged on in the process of that 2011 negotiation. Again, it would not have applied to any player already in the league when it was voted in.</p><p></p><p>Of course what goes around sometimes comes around. There are enough players in the league now playing under that rookie salary scale who think they've been getting short shrift. It's these players, the younger players, who are looking to catch up. I'm sure if you had a break down on the CBA vote, which awarded the owners the option to have a 17 game season in 2021, which is all but a lock now with the 2020 lost revenue, you'd find it was the young "invincible" guys voting "yea" for more money in the cap pot while the older players in good contracts opposed the change, most notably Rodgers, coming up short in opposition to the extended schedule.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardRightEdge, post: 877699"] First of all, the 5th. year option salary is dependent on which round the player was drafted. If the player was a top 10 pick it's one amount; if he was drafted lower in the first round it's a lower amount. Had Clark been a top 10 pick like DeForest Buckner his pay would be $12.378 mil. Why is there a 5th. year option? It is simply a matter of the 2011 CBA negotiation. Start by blaming Matt Ryan, Matthew Stafford and ultimately Sam Bradford, drafted at #3 2008, #1 in 2009 and #1 in 2010, respectively. These guys landed whomping $70+ mil rookie contracts making them among the highest paid players in the league. Bradford was the straw that broke the camel's back, 5 years/$78 mil/$50 mil guaranteed. If that was not the largest guarantee in the league it was close to it. These guys set the high water marks in their respective draft years which was spilling over into contracts for a few other non-QB draftees getting $60 mil rookie contracts. Under a hard cap, who are the losers when the players of the future will be taking down big money right out of the gate? The current players. Who votes for the CBA? The current players. This kind of thing is not uncommon in collective bargaining where the current union members vote to protect their personal interests at the expense of future members. For example, you might see current union members protecting their own pensions while conceding lower pensions for future members. In this case I don't think you could tag the current players as selling out their future brethren given the objectively excessive pay going to guys who've yet to take an NFL snap. Of course owners were not happy shelling out veteran star money for guys who could as easily be busts as not. So there was an easy meeting of the minds: the rookie salary scale. Starting in 2011, each position in the draft has had a total contract value for the duration of the rookie deal. Further, all draftee contracts are for 4 years. There's a little wiggle room in how the money is spread out over those 4 years, a bigger signing bonus for up more up front cash might be a point of negotiation for example, but the salary scale doesn't leave much negotiation latitude. I don't see where Burrow has signed yet so Kyler Murray as a point of comparison was the #1 pick in the 2019 draft. His rooke deal under the salary scale was for $35.6 mil for 4 years, with a $23.6 mil signing bonus, around half of Bradford's rookie deal. While 2010 was an uncapped year, the cap in 2009 was $123 and then $120 mil in 2011. With 63% cap inflation between now and then, Bradford's deal in 2019 dollars would have been something like 4 years/$102 mil/$82 mil guaranteed. Without that rookie salary cap is that what Kyler Murray's rookie deal would have looked like? That's where it was heading, but I digress. In short, the 5th. year option can be viewed as an extension of the rookie salary scale applicable to 1st. rounders as a team option, something extra tagged on in the process of that 2011 negotiation. Again, it would not have applied to any player already in the league when it was voted in. Of course what goes around sometimes comes around. There are enough players in the league now playing under that rookie salary scale who think they've been getting short shrift. It's these players, the younger players, who are looking to catch up. I'm sure if you had a break down on the CBA vote, which awarded the owners the option to have a 17 game season in 2021, which is all but a lock now with the 2020 lost revenue, you'd find it was the young "invincible" guys voting "yea" for more money in the cap pot while the older players in good contracts opposed the change, most notably Rodgers, coming up short in opposition to the extended schedule. [/QUOTE]
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