Prelude To Hunter's Deal?

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Ian Rapoport

@RapSheet

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Sources: The #Steelers and star pass-rusher TJ Watt have a mega-deal. He’s going to sign a 4-year extension worth more than $112M — $28.003M average per year — with $80M fully guaranteed at signing. The highest paid defensive player in football.

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Seth Kaplan

@Seth_Kaplan

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JJ Watt's career contract earnings: $115 million (11 yrs)
TJ Watt's contract extension: $112 million (4 years)

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Ugh. Yes. I'm sure Danielle very much liked seeing that contract

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Holy shit Batman…!  :o 

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Pro Salaries are cray/cray...

But then, so are owner profits. 

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@purplefaithful said:
Pro Salaries are cray/cray...

But then, so are owner profits. 

Yup.  Hard to get upset about players getting paid while the NFL rakes in billions.  Now it would be nice if the salaries were a bit more evenly spread.

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After all our cap maneuvering this past year, I'm not too concerned that we'll find a way to lock up Hunter, assuming we want to. 

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@"BarrNone55" said:
After all our cap maneuvering this past year, I'm not too concerned that we'll find a way to lock up Hunter, assuming we want to. 

we could have kept all the cap space we made this year and used to to redo hunters deal and I dont know if it would have covered a deal like this. 

I know new cba and all,  but IMO the guys on the front end of this money are going to do a lot better than those hitting FA when the money actually starts to trickle in.  I think teams are getting over their tips a little and we will end up seeing the same cap disasters in a year or two that we always have.