Pandion Haliaetus
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I've heard a lot of people complain about this deal and the money that came with it. And his name was brought up in the Suh thread with some negativity wrapped around it.
Which made me look back into Wright's contract to explore a possible trade scenario since Nortons in Oak and Quinn is in Atl. Both could probably use a high character now veteran leader like Wright as a coach-to-player bridge. And that money could be used elsewhere like for Suh...just because I like exploring out of the box idealism just for the differing perspective.
However, Wright is untradeable for his first two years. It would probably take a high 2016 draft pick (3 round) plus a low round 2015 (5-6 round) to convince the Seahawks to swallow 4 million in dead cap in 2015. Although it could be worth it if they wanted to free up future cap in 2016 and so forth but I doubt the Seahawks do that to a player after signing him... Unless Norton/Quinn absolutely wanted him.
Looking at the numbers in Wright's contract, its essentialhardworkear deal.
3 years for 18.8 M.
Cap Hit/ Savings/ Dead Money (in Millions)
1: 4.75/ 0.75/ 4.00
2: 6.25/ 3.25/ 3.00
3: 6.80/ 4.80/ 2.00
4: 8.20/ 7.20/ 1.00
It comes out to 18.8 because I dont think Wright sees that final year hence the Seahawks taking that 1 mil of dead cap.
Across three years thats 6.27 apy.
If there is no guaranteed language in the contract going into year three, Seahawks could still cut Wright aftet 2 years using a June 1st designation to spread a 2 mil dead cap hit equally amongst the 2017 and 18 seasons. Saving 13 million altogether.
But his contract essentially becomes a 2 yr, 13 mil deal.
Wright currently has the 2nd highest per year contract out of all 4-3 LBs acccording to overthecap.com where Im sourcing all the numbers from. He ranks 21st out of all LBs.
But technically his extentsion still worked the same like Earls and Shermans. Wright recieved a 1m cap hit in 2014 for his signing bonus.
So really the deal that he signed was
5 yr for about 28.6 m = 5.72 apy
Throw out that 7.2m on the last year its:
4 yr for about 21.4m = 5.35 apy
5.35 would have been 6th out of OLBs and 34th out of all LBs.
Wright as been a productive, reliable starter and conssumate team player pretty much since his rookie year. Wright's immediate presence in 2011 flipped Aaron Curry into a pair of draft picks: JR Sweezy and Tharold Simon. (To note doesnt look great on paper since Wright and Simon gave up 3 of 4 TDs in SBXLIX but...) thats 2 solid starters and a potentially promising young corner stemming from Wright's hardwork (as well as JS and the coaches).
But most importantly the guy has been a leader since day 1... Being smart and versatile enough to play all three LB positions when needed but Wright was also there for a rookie Bobby Wagner ushering him along until Wags was confident enough to run the defense and call the plays.
So looking at the overall picture... Guys coming off those Rookie Scale contracts are going to get paid just a little bit more for what they've done in exceeding expectations as well as paid for future expectations.
Wright's lifetime work combining both contracts is
8 yrs for about 29.5 = 3.69m apy
Minus the last year of current deal...
7 yrs for about 22.3 = 3.19m apy.
Just looking into the bigger picture just seems a lot of hand-wringing over the contract when more or less Wright is just getting what he deserves and obviously the Seahawks felt that he did deserve what he got and that he was valuable enough to keep.
Which made me look back into Wright's contract to explore a possible trade scenario since Nortons in Oak and Quinn is in Atl. Both could probably use a high character now veteran leader like Wright as a coach-to-player bridge. And that money could be used elsewhere like for Suh...just because I like exploring out of the box idealism just for the differing perspective.
However, Wright is untradeable for his first two years. It would probably take a high 2016 draft pick (3 round) plus a low round 2015 (5-6 round) to convince the Seahawks to swallow 4 million in dead cap in 2015. Although it could be worth it if they wanted to free up future cap in 2016 and so forth but I doubt the Seahawks do that to a player after signing him... Unless Norton/Quinn absolutely wanted him.
Looking at the numbers in Wright's contract, its essentialhardworkear deal.
3 years for 18.8 M.
Cap Hit/ Savings/ Dead Money (in Millions)
1: 4.75/ 0.75/ 4.00
2: 6.25/ 3.25/ 3.00
3: 6.80/ 4.80/ 2.00
4: 8.20/ 7.20/ 1.00
It comes out to 18.8 because I dont think Wright sees that final year hence the Seahawks taking that 1 mil of dead cap.
Across three years thats 6.27 apy.
If there is no guaranteed language in the contract going into year three, Seahawks could still cut Wright aftet 2 years using a June 1st designation to spread a 2 mil dead cap hit equally amongst the 2017 and 18 seasons. Saving 13 million altogether.
But his contract essentially becomes a 2 yr, 13 mil deal.
Wright currently has the 2nd highest per year contract out of all 4-3 LBs acccording to overthecap.com where Im sourcing all the numbers from. He ranks 21st out of all LBs.
But technically his extentsion still worked the same like Earls and Shermans. Wright recieved a 1m cap hit in 2014 for his signing bonus.
So really the deal that he signed was
5 yr for about 28.6 m = 5.72 apy
Throw out that 7.2m on the last year its:
4 yr for about 21.4m = 5.35 apy
5.35 would have been 6th out of OLBs and 34th out of all LBs.
Wright as been a productive, reliable starter and conssumate team player pretty much since his rookie year. Wright's immediate presence in 2011 flipped Aaron Curry into a pair of draft picks: JR Sweezy and Tharold Simon. (To note doesnt look great on paper since Wright and Simon gave up 3 of 4 TDs in SBXLIX but...) thats 2 solid starters and a potentially promising young corner stemming from Wright's hardwork (as well as JS and the coaches).
But most importantly the guy has been a leader since day 1... Being smart and versatile enough to play all three LB positions when needed but Wright was also there for a rookie Bobby Wagner ushering him along until Wags was confident enough to run the defense and call the plays.
So looking at the overall picture... Guys coming off those Rookie Scale contracts are going to get paid just a little bit more for what they've done in exceeding expectations as well as paid for future expectations.
Wright's lifetime work combining both contracts is
8 yrs for about 29.5 = 3.69m apy
Minus the last year of current deal...
7 yrs for about 22.3 = 3.19m apy.
Just looking into the bigger picture just seems a lot of hand-wringing over the contract when more or less Wright is just getting what he deserves and obviously the Seahawks felt that he did deserve what he got and that he was valuable enough to keep.