NFL promoting Jessie Bates

[SunsetBengal]

(03-05-2021, 10:55 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: If a deal happened now, the Bengals should actually be able to knock down that APY a good deal.

He's making $2.44m in 2021. 
The franchise tag number in 2020 for safeties was $11.4m.

So 2yr/$14m is the starting point of team control... even if they add on 4yr/$60m ($15m/yr) in new money on top of that, that would end up being roughly 6yr/$74m ($12.3m/yr).

And worth every penny of that money.  He is a block in the secondary that the team can build around.  We haven't had that sort of presence since Reggie Nelson was calling the shots back there.  He's a vet now, put some young talent around him, and he will lead the way.