3 year deal for jt

[Chaka]

Originally Posted by IndyNorm

Crazy that the saga ended so abruptly. Overall probably a good thing, but agree w/ Chromeburn and a couple of others that this could set a bad precedent. MPJ is probably pretty pissed off right now.

Not sure it’s that bad of a precedent. Taylor got no increase in this year’s salary, and the average salary for the following three years (where he was unsigned) is $14 million, with only a little more than 60% ($26.5M) guaranteed. The franchise number (fully guaranteed) for next year would probably have been in the $11M-$12M range). The devil’s in the details, as always, and those aren’t all available yet. Not sure Taylor wouldn’t have done better by waiting until the end of the season to negotiate an extension though.

EDIT: it looks like the projected franchise number for RBs next year will actually be over $13M, per Overthecap
http://https://overthecap.com/franch...nd-rfa-tenders