A question about Geno's contract and Jalen Carter's arrest

[bsuhawk]

According to 710, the first year of Geno's contract has $30 million worth of incentives. If he earns all $30 million, what's the impact on the team's cap? I assume the team won't have to cut players during the season as Geno meets the incentive requirements. That would suck.

Can Jalen Carter be suspended for part of next season because of the January incident? I assume not since it occurred prior to him joining the league.

 

[onanygivensunday]

Re Geno's contract, many contracts have incentives that the League puts into one of two categories... 1) incentives likely to be achieved, which, when achieved, count against this year's salary cap... and 2) incentives not likely to be achieved, which, if achieved, count against next year's cap.

The $30M in incentives in Geno's first year sound like incentives not likely to be achieved.

And your question re Jalen Carter, I believe that he can be punished by the NFL for his conduct before he is drafted. But he has been charged with two misdemeanors, which may not result in a suspension. It's a wait and see situation.

 

[bsuhawk]

Thanks for the info!

 

[onanygivensunday]

Thanks for the info!

De nada, brother!

 

[Hawknballs]

I don't think the league will suspend him. Racing a car isn't exactly the most egregious offense in the world. According to a friend from the area this is something that goes on all the time in that area. Those of us who live near Burien get to hear the same thing in the summer. The whole thing was exacerbated by the accident and deaths as a result but it's not like they are his fault.

 

[Flyingsquad23]

I don't think the league will suspend him. Racing a car isn't exactly the most egregious offense in the world. According to a friend from the area this is something that goes on all the time in that area. Those of us who live near Burien get to hear the same thing in the summer. The whole thing was exacerbated by the accident and deaths as a result but it's not like they are his fault.

I have to think you would find him at fault if he killed your family member while engaging in an illegal activity. I don’t agree with the NFL taking action but the dude should be in jail at the time of the draft.
But I’m sure he will have plenty of people making excuses for him because he can”ball”

 

[AgentDib]

I have to think you would find him at fault if he killed your family member while engaging in an illegal activity. I don’t agree with the NFL taking action but the dude should be in jail at the time of the draft.
But I’m sure he will have plenty of people making excuses for him because he can”ball”

To be clear, Jalen Carter isn't alleged to have killed anybody. Street racing is highly irresponsible and there are plenty of red flags about character issues stemming from this, but the people who died were adults making their own bad decisions and not surviving them.

 

[Hawknballs]

I have to think you would find him at fault if he killed your family member while engaging in an illegal activity.

How did Carter "kill" anyone in a car he wasn't driving and didn't collide with. . ?

 

[Hawknballs]

treet racing is highly irresponsible and there are plenty of red flags about character issues stemming from this,

RIP I guess everyone I knew in HS are bad people with character issues and red flags. lol.

 

[Rat]

I dont care about the off-field stuff with Carter. If Anderson, Stroud, and Richardson are all off the board, he should be the easy pick.

 

[JPatera76]

I don’t think the NFL will do anything. Why should they? The kid wasn’t even part of the nfl in anyway. That’d be like the NFL suspending your kid for getting in a fight back in high school… kind of over the top of they and and I would think a big overstep on them

 

[CallMeADawg]

I have to think you would find him at fault if he killed your family member while engaging in an illegal activity. I don’t agree with the NFL taking action but the dude should be in jail at the time of the draft.
But I’m sure he will have plenty of people making excuses for him because he can”ball”

In jail? For two misdemeanor offenses? What fascist world do you live in?

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Um..........people go to the jail for Misdemeanors too.

 

[sutz]

Re Geno's contract, many contracts have incentives that the League puts into one of two categories... 1) incentives likely to be achieved, which, when achieved, count against this year's salary cap... and 2) incentives not likely to be achieved, which, if achieved, count against next year's cap.

The $30M in incentives in Geno's first year sound like incentives not likely to be achieved.

And your question re Jalen Carter, I believe that he can be punished by the NFL for his conduct before he is drafted. But he has been charged with two misdemeanors, which may not result in a suspension. It's a wait and see situation.

I suspect there is a mixture of LTBE and NLTBE incentives in the deal. We don't know the details yet.

 

[CallMeADawg]

Um..........people go to the jail for Misdemeanors too.

Highly doubt a young kid is going to jail for racing his car.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

I didn't say he was or was not. But you CAN go to jail for Misd. charges.

 

[Rat]

Um..........people go to the jail for Misdemeanors too.

Yes... regular people.

 

[CallMeADawg]

I didn't say he was or was not. But you CAN go to jail for Misd. charges.

Let me be more clear, two misdemeanor charges for a kid fresh out of college, whom was racing his car. Not exactly useful to put him in jail for that. He'll get a fine. Expecting jail time for this is BS.

 

[ElvisInBlue]

Yes... regular people.

Yeah no sobriety check after returning to the scene then booked, processed, released in 16 minutes.

Don’t be shocked if the criminal side is resolved prior to April 27th.

 

[therealjohncarlson]

I will say one part that people are missing is that Carter was likely drunk when racing.. at least thats my understanding since the drive of the other car was quite drunk.