Le'Veon Bell sitting out the entire season.
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75% of NFL players end up essentially broke, or something close to that. I get it, the NFL owners are evil and the team is screwing him....just saying, they offered a pretty reasonable amount of money. It’s his right to refuse, but I doubt this decision pays off for him. We shall see.
Yes but the tag has been applied to players who's contracts are going to expire to allow the team to trade them.
Sure, but the point about the money being guaranteed holds. It's not like the Steelers could tag Bell and trade him to Seattle who would choose to pay him $6M.
He avoided a potential career ending injury by not playing this year. He will get more guaranteed money than what was being offered. In the sense of protecting himself, why not?
He is covering his own ass. What is wrong with that?
No, he's out the $14.5M.....but he didn't get injured this year. The big risk with tagging guys is that they could suffer a major injury while tagged and then never get that one big contract. If he played this year and, say, tore his ACL, he'd get the $14.5M, but he'd be playing for relative scraps after that in a comeback attempt. As it is now, he lost the $14.5M, but still may be in line for a big check.
That stat is so misleading.
Most careers are three years are less so that is why many players end up "broke." Even then most players make $1.5 million in those three years. It's their own damn fault for blowing thorough it and not spending it wisely.
Technically accurate, but it doesn't provide an accurate picture of what is happening. It's like saying 99 percent of sperm die needlessly!
He would if he had showed up for the minimum. Now that he's passed the deadline, he's not under contract for this season, so he will not get credit for this season.
He was washed 3 years ago so I'm not sure how that has changed.
Good to see Le'Veon Bell is still over-estimating the amount of leverage he holds.
I didn’t follow this close, but all I’ve heard the last few years is how replaceable RBs are.
Do most figure Bell come out ahead on this gamble?
Found somewhere that breaks down contracts
You came very close the outcome. Given the timeline and fall off, he seems to have done alright, maybe even better off. Good job, J-E-T-S!
2019:
Le'Veon Bell signed a 4 year, $52,500,000 contract with the New York Jets, including a $8,000,000 signing bonus, $27,000,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $13,125,000.
2020:
Le'Veon Bell signed a 1 year, $1,000,000 contract with the Kansas City Chiefs, including an average annual salary of $1,000,000.
2021:
Le'Veon Bell signed a 1 year, $168,000 contract with the Baltimore Ravens, including an average annual salary of $168,000.
Will never know for sure how much that sit-out year hurt his career, or if he'd have fallen off soon after regardless; but he was never close to the same after leaving Pittsburgh.
He got his money getting that $28M from the Jets for 2 years but it ended his productivity. Kind of interesting, get that big pay day and never do anything on the field again.
