BREAKING: Tee Higgins Requests Trade

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(03-14-2024, 12:04 AM)bfine32 Wrote: Pretty sure a huge reason AJ was traded was because he wasn't going to play on that rookie deal. About a minute after he was traded he signed a $100 Mil contract. Imma go out on a limb and say all parties new this was going to happen. 

Yes, a 4yr/$100m extension.

Which as I showed up above your post...

Quote:If you give both guys 4yr/$100m extensions, AJ Brown is now under control for 5yr/$101m ($20.2m/yr) while Higgins would be under control for 5yr/$122m ($24.4m).

You could give both the exact same contract extension, and Higgins would still on average cost $4.2m/yr more over those 5 years, or almost 21% more. That's a significant amount.

In the case of the Eagles, because of that $1m base salary in 2022 they managed to get a $5.6m cap hit for AJ Brown, which let them add so many guys to that dominant DL that took them to the SB.