BREAKING: The #Bucs and All-Pro safety Antoine Winfield Jr. have agreed to a 4-year, $84M extension, making him the highest paid defensive back in NFL history, per @AdamSchefter. Massive payday for one of the young stars in the NFL. pic.twitter.com/JYWISLxUV1
Originally Posted by tredadda:
Because we all live in a world where cap space is a thing I wonder what defensive position suffers due to high DT and now possibly S contracts. On offense it looks like RBs and TE's that suffer for the sake of QBs and WRs.
The cost of safeties is dropping. The Fangio cover 6 is kind of making them expendable. [Reply]
It may make some high end players wait as long as possible but the average player needs to sign when they have an offer. Nothing is guaranteed. Plus there's only so much money to go around. [Reply]
I thank God daily for the salary cap. Veach and team manage it and draft about as good as anyone could hope for and it make us really hard to catch. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Jewish Rabbi:
Is this dude even good?
Ranked no.1 by both PFN and PFF, for what that's worth. Also bearing in mind that there just aren't that many truly great safeties in the league right now. If I posted the top-10 list from PFN I doubt most people would recognize more than 3-4 names.
Still, their GM isn't really known for overpaying players (doesn't even do signing bonuses apparently) so I doubt it's a big overpay. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Megatron96:
Ranked no.1 by both PFN and PFF, for what that's worth. Also bearing in mind that there just aren't that many truly great safeties in the league right now. If I posted the top-10 list from PFN I doubt most people would recognize more than 3-4 names.
Still, their GM isn't really known for overpaying players (doesn't even do signing bonuses apparently) so I doubt it's a big overpay.
He doesn’t play for the Chiefs so he sucks [Reply]
Definitely one of the top 3 safeties in the NFL and played like the best last season. He's worth some coin, no doubt. I don't necessarily agree with spending top dollar on a safety but I can't blame a team with the space keeping a playmaker like him. [Reply]
Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief:
I thank God daily for the salary cap. Veach and team manage it and draft about as good as anyone could hope for and it make us really hard to catch.
Yeah, but if we didn't have the salary cap we would be keeping all of our stars.