Where is the Bates Extension?

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(08-02-2021, 05:00 PM)WeezyBengal Wrote: I want to buy his jersey and am waiting on this. If he walks after this year I'm going to be SUPES pissed.

Get it done, Mike.

Well, that's by far the least likely scenario, so no worries there. Even if he doesn't get extended, franchise tagging him the next two years in a row would still be cheaper on average.

The franchise tag $ for safeties in 2021 was ~$10.5m. Even if you add 20% onto that for a second straight year of tagging, that's still ~$12.6m.

So if you look at his 2021 $2.9m cap hit, and figure they can tag him the next two years for $23.1m, that's a total of 3yr/$26m that they can get him at, which is probably why there hasn't been an extension yet since it'll probably be more like 4yr/$60m (5yr/$62.9m when you factor in 2021). Means for that extra 2 years they'd be paying almost $37m.