CHART: What a $100 million NFL contract really looks like
Cam Newton became the latest NFL player to join the $100 million club when he agreed to a new five-year, $103.8 million contract with the Carolina Panthers. But like all NFL contracts, the only number that really matters is the guaranteed portion of the deal.
To make matters more complicated, deals in recent years have included two different versions of "guaranteed." There's the portion of the contract that's only guaranteed for injury, and then there's the portion that's "fully guaranteed." In the latter case, this is the amount of money a team would owe a player if they cut him.
To get a more consistent sense of what is truly guaranteed in the NFL, the chart below looks at the fully guaranteed portion of the largest contracts signed in the last two years. In this case, we defined "fully guaranteed" as the signing bonus plus a player's first-year salary and bonuses (even if not technically guaranteed) and any future salaries guaranteed at the time of signing.
BusinessInsider.com
These 15 contracts have an average potential value of $101.6 million and a fully guaranteed value of just $32.3 million, or about 31.8% of the total contract.
Darrelle Revis (55.6%) received the largest percentage of his contract as a full guaranteed. Ndamukong Suh (52.4%) is the only other player with more than half of his deal fully guaranteed. At the other end, only 11.5% of Colin Kaepernick's $114 million contract was fully guaranteed at signing.
- A centenarian who starts her day with gentle exercise and loves walks shares 5 longevity tips, including staying single
- A couple accidentally shipped their cat in an Amazon return package. It arrived safely 6 days later, hundreds of miles away.
- Colon cancer rates are rising in young people. If you have two symptoms you should get a colonoscopy, a GI oncologist says.
- Having an regional accent can be bad for your interviews, especially an Indian one: study
- Dirty laundry? Major clothing companies like Zara and H&M under scrutiny for allegedly fuelling deforestation in Brazil
- 5 Best places to visit near Darjeeling
- Climate change could become main driver of biodiversity decline by mid-century: Study
- RBI initiates transition plan: Small finance banks to ascend to universal banking status
- JNK India IPO allotment date
- JioCinema New Plans
- Realme Narzo 70 Launched
- Apple Let Loose event
- Elon Musk Apology
- RIL cash flows
- Charlie Munger
- Feedbank IPO allotment
- Tata IPO allotment
- Most generous retirement plans
- Broadcom lays off
- Cibil Score vs Cibil Report
- Birla and Bajaj in top Richest
- Nestle Sept 2023 report
- India Equity Market