Earl Thomas signed to extension 4yr/$40 Million

[Smoke]

WE ARE NEVER LOSING ANOTHER GAME

 

[-The Glove-]

10 a year is a bargain for ET

 

[Sac]

I was close on the guaranteed money!

Yeah your guess that followed two posts telling us how much it was worth was pretty close.

Psshhh. I was tapatalking my post as those were being posted. I didn't see them.

 

[Missing_Clink]

Byrd has the highest annual average, but that deal is heavily backloaded.

Eric Berry is set to make 8.6M in 2014, making him the highest paid safety this year.

So when Rapoport says "easily" .. I'm guessing Earl is getting close to 10M a year.

Jairus Byrd's annual average is $9.3 mil on his new deal. I'm guessing that Earl will be a hair over $10 mil annual average.

 

[HawksSoc]

‏@RapSheet 17s
The #Seahawks four-year extension for safety Earl Thomas pays him $40 million base value with $27.725 million guaranteed, source says.

So about what some of us were guessing.....10mil a year. Hopefully the cap hit is small enough this year to get Sherm done too. I expect it is.

Adding in the year he had left its 5years, 45 mil, that's only nine a year, bargain

Albert Breer ‏@AlbertBreer 2 mins
Per @RapSheet, the deal for Earl Thomas is worth $40 million over 4 years in new money. That puts him at close to $45 million over 5 years.

Rich Eisen ‏@richeisen 4 mins
No question @Earl_Thomas deserves to be highest paid safety. He may just be the best defensive player in the game, period.

 

[JZ#1]

Wait so does the extension mean we have him next year + 4 more years. Or is it just for 4 years starting now?

 

[GCrow]

Scrolling through the twitterz on the phone and very unexpectedly came across this.

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[HawksSoc]

Wait so does the extension mean we have him next year + 4 more years. Or is it just for 4 years starting now?

Extension, so five years, also see Breer's tweet in my post above yours.

 

[Ziggyy108]

Wait so does the extension mean we have him next year + 4 more years. Or is it just for 4 years starting now?

He was already under contract for this nextear PLUS now 4 more years.

So we have him locked up for the next 5 seasons


So he's at about 45 mill for the next 5 years if these reported #'s are correct.

 

[KiwiHawk]

Upon hearing the news

Throwdown and his dog were all like

Who's the tall guy dancing with Russell Wilson?

 

[Hasselbeck]

Was hoping to see 6 years!

4 is perfect. Counting this year we will have him until 2019.

I expect Sherm's to be similar structure with a larger per year average

 

[Missing_Clink]

Wait so does the extension mean we have him next year + 4 more years. Or is it just for 4 years starting now?

No I think it is 5 years of club control now since this is an "extension" to his previous contract which had 1 more year on it as opposed to a new contract.

 

[Polaris]

Wait so does the extension mean we have him next year + 4 more years. Or is it just for 4 years starting now?

I believe it's 4 years starting now. Basically the 'hawks have torn up the last year of his rookie deal and replaced it with this new deal.

Edit PS: It does effectively mean five more years of club control when you factor in franchise tags and the like, but I am almost sure they way the 'hawks are going to fit this under the cap is to replace what would have been Earl's cap number (about five million) with the new one starting now. I could be wrong, but IIRC that's how these things are usually done (just like Coach Carroll's contract extension tears up the last year of his old contract)

 

[Coug_Hawk08]

Classic, had to.

 

[HawksSoc]

Upon hearing the news

Throwdown and his dog were all like

Who's the tall guy dancing with Russell Wilson?

Kearse?

 

[Largent80]

After 4 hours of an extension upon hearing of the extension, should I dial the number?

 

[Ziggyy108]

Anyone think Sherm's deal is soon to follow?

 

[pmedic920]

4 years 40 million / 27.72 guaranteed.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap200000 ... aid-safety

 

[Seahawkfan80]

So could I guess as you have taught me a bit...

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and the rest is bonuses or some such? I dont know so am going out on a limb.......for squirrels that is.

 

[Hasselbeck]

Byrd has the highest annual average, but that deal is heavily backloaded.

Eric Berry is set to make 8.6M in 2014, making him the highest paid safety this year.

So when Rapoport says "easily" .. I'm guessing Earl is getting close to 10M a year.

Jairus Byrd's annual average is $9.3 mil on his new deal. I'm guessing that Earl will be a hair over $10 mil annual average.

Yeah but that figure is very misleading when you look at the breakdown of the deal. Byrd wont see half that money.

Have a feeling Thomas' deal will be front loaded while we have the cap room.