Tee Higgins firing his agent... Who is also Jessie Bates agent?

[SunsetBengal]

(12-12-2024, 12:31 PM)CJD Wrote: I was curious about this too, so I went to his website where it lists all his past and current clients.
https://fanspo.com/nfl/agents/david-mulugheta/45657

Overall, he has 49 clients listed.

Then I checked each player for a few things:
1. If they are still on the same team that they were drafted to (or had been when they left the league).
2. If they had signed a contract extension with that original team
3. If they were traded at any point.

The third topic only came up because as I was going through the wikipedia pages of these players, I noticed an uncanny number of them had been traded.

Without further ado:
1. Only 37% of his clients, past and current, started their career with one team and still remain on that same team.  This includes players on their rookie contracts, which have not had a chance to test free agency and/or were franchise tagged. So this number will likely shrink, as Tee Higgins, CJ Stroud, Kyle Pitts, Jaycee Horn, Broderick Jones, Micah Parsons, Nolan Smith, Odafe Oweh, Jevon Holland, Andre Cisco, Brandon Stephens, Joseph Ossai, and Malcolm Koonce have all not had an opportunity to test free agency in earnest yet. Now, this may not be a fair metric, as there are very few players who stay with their original team for their entire careers. That's why I created the second topic.

2. 40.6% of his clients, past and current, signed extensions or second contracts with their originally drafted teams. This does not include players who either flamed out of the league or were not desired free agents by their original team, like Kadeem Edwards, Corey Coleman, or Deionte Thompson. This also does not include the aforementioned players who have not yet had an opportunity to reach free agency. So this feels like a much more accurate representation of how many players sign with their original team when that resigning was desired by the team than the first topic. And I was very surprised how low it was (and how close it was to the first topic).

3. Finally, the number of players who either demanded a trade or were traded during their careers. The vast majority of which were from their original team. It was only 22%, but still struck me as unusually high. 10 of his 49 clients were traded at least once in their career, and another one (Earl Thomas) demanded a trade before ultimately showing up to camp and then breaking his leg (notoriously flipping off the Seahawks as he was carted off the field). The other 10 are Deshaun Watson, Jalen Ramsey, Justin Fields, Isaiah Simmons, Gabe Jackson, Melvin Ingram, Corey Coleman, Quandre Diggs, Kevin Byard, and Jermaine Eluemunor.

I don't know what to do with this information, but my general takeaways are that if Mulugheta is your favorite player's agent, there's roughly a 50% chance that that player will either not re-sign past their rookie contract or will demand a trade at some point, even if they sign an extension/non-rookie contract (as Watson, Diggs, Ingram, and Thomas)

I compiled this information mostly through Wikipedia, but I also used my own memory of these players and their situations as well, so forgive me if 1 or 2 results are slightly off. I checked over half of the players' wikipedia pages though, so I think this is a pretty accurate representation of his client base.


There was obviously Higgins and Bates.


But he also represents Joseph Ossai.

In addition, he represented Jermaine Eluemunor, a tackle that was consistently tied to the Bengals in free agency and kept signing reasonable contracts for his perceived value as a starting RT, but the Bengals never seemed interested in him. I wonder if his agent of choice had anything to do with that.

Xavier McKinney was another free agent that was tied to the Bengals this past off season, but we went with Geno Stone instead. That one stings, as McKinney is balling out this year.

Nice work, definitely gives a more complete picture of Mulugheta as a agent and how original drafting teams fare with him.