03-05-2021, 10:55 PM
(03-05-2021, 06:42 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Bengals better be ready to pay Bates $14+ mill APY.
The top 5 safeties in NFL all make $14.0 - $14.75 mill.
Bates might command $15 mill TBH.
(03-05-2021, 07:44 PM)Au165 Wrote: If I’m the Bengals I’d actually be trying to get it done in the next few weeks because Simmons is getting ready to reset the market. They tagged him but he will eventually end up on a long term deal.
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).
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