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(03-21-2022, 04:03 PM)Au165 Wrote: So the answer is...it depends. The 5th year option used to be a bit lower and more slot based but that got changed in the 2020 CBA.
Now yhe 5th year option has some weird quirks to it to modify it's value including play time and pro bowl modifiers. At pick 31, if a player achieved multiple pro bowls it is possible that player could very well be in line for a FT deal. For example, the player up for a 5th year option this year off pick 31 is Kaleb McGary a RT. If he would have hit multiple pro bowls he'd be looking at a 5th year option of 16.6 million while the franchise tag was in fact the exact same number. Now if he wasn't a pro bowl player and just a consistent starter that number would have dropped to 13.3 million so would have been a savings.

Yeah, I guess one of the more attractive things about that 5th year option is just control.  It isn't just a dollar amount, but the fact that the club has a 5th year option on the player that can prevent them from becoming a free agent for an additional year.

Look at Tee Higgins.  Picked at the top of rd 2.  If he was picked at the end of Rd 1, you would not have to sign him to a new deal (or franchise tag him, etc) compared to the club having just 4 years with him as a 2nd round pick before he becomes a FA.  Perhaps a better example is Jesse Bates, since he is in this situation now.