JoeyB willing to restructure

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(02-06-2025, 07:10 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: There is no bidding war yet. Only Bengals can speak with Tee and his agent. JJ has contract of 140 million with 110 million guaranteed.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40268752/sources-justin-jefferson-vikings-agree-4-year-140m-deal. It calculates to 78.5% guaranteed.

Lamb got an extension for 136 million with 100 million guaranteed or 73.5%.

https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-wr-ceedee-lamb-agree-to-terms-on-four-year-136-million-extension

Tee want more, but even if he wants more, the Bengals can structure it to be very affordable years 1 and years 2 if they choose.

JJ and Lamb are 2 of the best WR's in football. Tee does not have the numbers to get anything close to them in my opinion. I love Tee, he is not Jamar either.

Those are both the fake numbers that are released to make it look better, not the guaranteed at signing which are the REAL guarantees.
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/contracts/_/position/wr/sort/initial_guaranteed/dir/desc

If both of Jefferson's legs fall off tomorrow, he will not get $110m. The same with Lamb's $100m.

Jefferson got $88.743m guaranteed at signing.
Lamb got $67m.

Those are the real numbers.

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Example:
https://www.nfl.com/news/russell-wilson-broncos-contract-extension-five-year-245-million
"includes $165m guaranteed"

But Wilson didn't see $165m out of that contract, because that was the fake inflated "guarantees". What he got was $124 ($123m from the Broncos and $1m from the Steelers), because that was the actual guaranteed money.
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/_/id/9885/russell-wilson

Guaranteed at signing is largely the only number that truly matters. The rest is for show. That's why Davante Adams' deal was so tradeable despite being on a 5yr/$140m deal... only $22.75m of it was guaranteed at signing.

Amon-Ra St Brown got a 4yr/$120m extension last offseason and 2025 will be the first year of it, but after 2025's $13.9m cap hit the Lions could already get out of it with just $16.7m in dead cap because it only had a $34.6m guarantee at signing despite the gaudy looking "$77m guaranteed" that is ostensibly attached to it.