4 hours ago
(5 hours ago)rfaulk34 Wrote: Ok, i was looking at it wrong. I was thinking the guarantee is part of the salary that is figured year by year.
So it's the full amount, beyond the first year (signing bonus + salary) that has to be put aside.
Burrow:
Total guaranteed $219M
2023 salary $1M + $40M signing bonus = $41M
Escrow $178M
**it's at this point i'm starting to get a real headache**
Orlando Brown:
Total guaranteed $31.1M
2023 salary $1.5M + $31.1M signing bonus
Escrow 0
Trey is similar to OBj. $8M guarantee, $8M signing bonus.
Escrow 0
If Chase gets something similar to Jefferson it should look something like this: (these are jefferson's numbers. Chase will be higher but structure about the same)
Total guaranteed $110M
2025 salary $1.5M + $37M signing bonus = $47.5M
Escrow $62.5M
Total for those 4 players, approx $241M
Even if the signing bonuses don't go into escrow, that's still liquid cash that you needed to instantly no longer have. It doesn't make sense to exclude that.
Also the Trey extension this offseason is going to be more than $8m signing bonus. It's probably going to be a 3yr/75-90m extension with $45m-ish guaranteed.
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