Browns sign Myles Garrett to 5-year, $125 million extension

[Auggie]

The deal includes $100 million guaranteed, according to NFL Network

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Myles Garrett's on-field misbehavior last season damaged his public image. It didn't change how the Cleveland Browns feel about him.

The team signed Garrett to a five-year, $125 million contract extension on Wednesday, making the talented edge rusher the NFL's highest-paid defensive player. The deal includes $100 million guaranteed, according to NFL Network.

The timing of Garrett's extension is surprising since the last time he played in a game it ended with him ripping off Pittsburgh quarterback Mason Rudolph's helmet and striking him in the head with it. The shocking attack led to a six-game suspension for Garrett and questions about his character.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/browns-sign-myles-garrett-to-5-year-125-million-extension

I'm going to guess the contract has all kind of behavioral clauses providing an out for Cleveland ... otherwise it's a huge roll of the dice.

[Ohiogal]

1. My husband, a Browns fan from way back

Thinks this is a good idea....

[Srkdqltr]

2. I understand.... It's the great God football...I can't imagine having that much money...

Can any of you who are just fans?

[marble falls]

3. Why I no longer follow any professional sports. The only athelete I follow is LeBron James ...

and only because of the amazing contributions he makes to society off field.

The money is crazy and has nothing to do with the game or the sport. Its all about providing programing to networks.

[JonLP24]

5. The networks give the league money the right to broadcast games

Everyone makes big money off the game why not the athletes themselves?

[marble falls]

6. The owners getting big bucks to provide progaraming is the only reason atheletes, a small ...

percentage of who get the big bucks, get paid.


https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/01/heres-what-the-average-nfl-players-makes-in-a-season.html

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The minimum annual salary for a rookie active roster player with a one-year contract is $480,000, according to the collective bargaining agreement the NFL signed in 2011 with the NFL Players Association, which will be in effect until 2020.

That minimum increases for each year a player spends in the NFL. A player with three years’ experience would command a salary equal to at least $705,000, while players with seven to nine years on the field must be paid at least $915,000.

That’s great news for those lucky enough to last that long in the NFL, but many won’t ring in a seventh year on the job. The average career length is less than three years, meaning most players never advance beyond the lower rungs of that payment ladder.

Of course, $480,000 is by no means a poor wage — it just isn’t quite the seven-digit figure many football fans might expect.

When you factor in all the players earning these minimum salaries, along with the payouts of a team’s golden boy, you’ll find that the average NFL salary was only about $2.7 million in 2017, according to The L.A. Times. That’s less than three-quarters of the average $4 million earnings of a major league baseball player and less than half the typical wage of NBA players, who earn about $7.1 million on average.

But even that average salary is probably too high to accurately reflect what an everyman in the NFL makes in a year, thanks to outliers like Wilson and Elliott pulling the average up with their outsize earnings. The median salary for all NFL players is actually about $860,000, much closer to those sums outlined in the sport’s minimum payment guidelines, according to The Houston Chronicle.

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When robots can play NFL level football, there'll be no more S150M contracts. If Las Vegas makes most money off of slots, people will watch NFL robots.

[JonLP24]

7. As a huge football fan I like the human element

It is difficult to get robots to even walk a straight line much less play NFL football.

[JonLP24]

4. Garrett says Rudolph called him the n-word during all that

Ex-Browns GM John Dorsey says Myles Garrett told him right away Mason Rudolph used racial slur

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.beaconjournal.com/sports/20200217/ex-browns-gm-john-dorsey-says-myles-garrett-told-him-right-away-mason-rudolph-used-racial-slur%3ftemplate=ampart

I'm guessing Fox News would leave that part out.

Either way it was clear Rudolph was instigating things as much as Garrett including trying to take his helmet off.