Las Vegas Raiders running back Josh Jacobs has agreed to a one-year contract worth up to $12 million, according to a person with knowledge of the deal.
  • Omega@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    2 Mil is a lot, especially if you’re stuck with a 1 year contract either way and you’re a RB. IMO rookie contracts and franchise tags are total jokes anyways. Franchise tags in particular seem totally disrespectful.

    • TheAndrewBrown@lemm.eeOP
      3·
      2 years ago

      I’m not sure it’s worth that now he can still be tagged two years in a row, unless I’m misunderstanding how this works. If he had signed the tag, they could only tag him one more time.

      • Omega@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 years ago

        Google is telling me it’s 3 times. But either way, if they franchise tag him next year, it will be 120% of his 12Mil instead of 120% of 10.1Mil if he was tagged this year. I.E. negotiating this year will get him an extra 2.3Mil if he is franchise tagged next year.

        • TheAndrewBrown@lemm.eeOP
          3·
          2 years ago

          So I looked into it further and didn’t realize the 120% of the previous salary was an option, I thought it was always the average of the top 5 salaries of their position.

          So in that case, it does help a little.

          As for how many tags you can put on, it looks like the 3rd time gets so expensive that it’s generally never used. But the fact that it’s 120% of the previous salary does make it pretty unlikely they’d tag him next year. That definitely makes this (and Barkley’s deal) make way more sense.