04-15-2020, 12:20 PM
I think this story is really a non-story. Of course he's going to hold out at 1.2M. That doesn't mean he's suddenly holding out for CMC money. It does NOT mean we suddenly have to draft a running back.
Mixon is still only 23. If he signs a two yr extension (meaning a 3 year deal) he can go back to free agency before he's 27. We can get plenty of value before the wheels fall off. Seems something like a 15M signing bonus, which effectively adds 5M to his cap hit this year. Then in the next couple of years his base salary (with incentives or whatever) comes in at around 10M, for cap hits in the mid teens. But that's just a guess.
Mixon is still only 23. If he signs a two yr extension (meaning a 3 year deal) he can go back to free agency before he's 27. We can get plenty of value before the wheels fall off. Seems something like a 15M signing bonus, which effectively adds 5M to his cap hit this year. Then in the next couple of years his base salary (with incentives or whatever) comes in at around 10M, for cap hits in the mid teens. But that's just a guess.
