Jamal Adams extended...Bates next?

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(08-19-2021, 08:48 PM)QueenCity Wrote: Personally I'd franchise him for the next two years depending on what other moves we'd like to make.  I have a hard time getting past paying a safety that much money.

Times have changed.  Safeties are not just guys who are too slow to play CB or too small to play LB.  With the way teams are throwing the ball now cover safeties like Bates are extremely valuable.

I don't know if you are old enough to remember when TEs were just small tackles who sometimes caught passes, but the same thing happened with that position.  Now there are several TEs making 10-15 million a year.