Jamal Adams extended...Bates next?

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(08-17-2021, 11:51 PM)J24 Wrote: Bates was regarded as   the best safety in Football last season, he had a  Terrific Rookie season, and the guy has played 99% of the defenses snaps the last three seasons,and has not missed one game in his whole career. To say he hasn't earned a new contract is ridiculously absurd.

Also the numbers for safeties are only going to go up so signing him today would be a much cheaper move than tagging him twice.

Look at the upcoming free agent class in 2022
Marcus May, Tyran Mathieu, Marcus Williams, and Harrison Smith. Also Fitzpatrick will be looking for a new deal.

By PFF.

He wasn't regarded the best safety by the All-Pro teams, and he wasn't regarded the best safety by NFL players (top-100).

A couple people were praising AV earlier in the thread. He didn't lead safeties in AV, and there's been a lot of safeties who have had better seasons according to that in the last 2 years than Bates did in 2020.

He's absolutely earned a new contract. Never said he didn't. I said he hasn't earned a top contract. If he wants a $10-12m/yr deal (still top-10 money), by all means, give it to him. I just think if he wants to be paid like an top-3 safety at $15-17m/yr, he's not there yet.

Don't let the fact that he wears a Bengals jersey cloud your objective judgement.

Tagging him twice will be much cheaper regardless of the FA class if he wants Jamal Adams money. It was $10.6m for Safeties in 2021. Add 20% for the second year and that's $12.7m in 2023.

So no, extending him now at his demands of elite S money is not going to be cheaper than ~$23.3m over the next two years. It would have to jump $7-11m to make that true, and it won't.