Source: www.stampedeblue.com --- Saturday, June 18, 2016
Colts quarterback Andrew Luck isn’t the only star NFL player to be working on a long-term deal this offseason with his team. The Broncos and outside linebacker Von Miller, who is fresh off of a Super Bowl MVP performance, are still working on reaching that long-term agreement. Miller is currently scheduled to play (or not play) 2016 under the franchise tag, but both sides want to get a deal done before then. It sounds like the holdup has to do with the amount of guaranteed money in the deal. According to Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio , the Broncos and Miller both agree on a six-year deal worth $114.5 million, but the difference comes in the guaranteed money. Florio says the Broncos offered Miller $38.5M fully guaranteed at signing and that number would rise to $58M guaranteed in March of 2018. Miller, however, wants a larger amount of guaranteed money and wants the full guarantee to come in March of 2017 instead of 2018. The Eagles just recently gave Fletcher Cox $63M in total guarantees, so Miller’s side seems to be remaining reasonable. I don’t bring this up in order to get into Miller’s situation as much as I bring it up to highlight this fact once again: for players, the guaranteed money is what really matters. That’s important to keep in mind for Andrew Luck’s coming deal as well, as the guaranteed money is really what people will be paying attention to. It’s likely that the deal overall will be something similar to a five ...
from NFL http://ift.tt/23iHken
No comments:
Post a Comment