Graphic: DALI KOVACEVIC
BY DEJAN KOVACEVIC
News: Ben Roethlisberger’s contract breakdown finally emerged, via Albert Breer of NFL Media, and he’ll count $17.245 million against the salary cap for the coming season, a break of only $1.15 million over his previous terms. Here are the full details to the decimal points.
Views: Other recent comparables, notably Joe Flacco’s in Baltimore, offered the Ravens a massive dip in the first year, but that clearly didn’t happen here, as the dollars are fairly evenly spread out.
Why might that be?
I wrote in the Friday column from Roethlisberger’s signing that I’d hoped to see a concession from the quarterback that allows the team to keep other players. And you’ll recall that both he and Art Rooney II answered my questions on the topic by saying they believed it does that. Well, without playing Omar Khan here, it would appear that their sentiment is based more on agreeing to a shorter term — five years rather than six or seven — that facilitates future restructuring between the team and agent Ryan Tollner. That can and will happen, and I’m betting it happens as early as the second year, when the cap hit soars to $23.95 million.
That’s the only point at which we’ll be able to judge this contract’s cap friendliness.
March 16, 2015
News/views: Ben details show new approach
by Dejan Kovacevic • News/views • Steelers
Graphic: DALI KOVACEVIC
BY DEJAN KOVACEVIC
News: Ben Roethlisberger’s contract breakdown finally emerged, via Albert Breer of NFL Media, and he’ll count $17.245 million against the salary cap for the coming season, a break of only $1.15 million over his previous terms. Here are the full details to the decimal points.
Views: Other recent comparables, notably Joe Flacco’s in Baltimore, offered the Ravens a massive dip in the first year, but that clearly didn’t happen here, as the dollars are fairly evenly spread out.
Why might that be?
I wrote in the Friday column from Roethlisberger’s signing that I’d hoped to see a concession from the quarterback that allows the team to keep other players. And you’ll recall that both he and Art Rooney II answered my questions on the topic by saying they believed it does that. Well, without playing Omar Khan here, it would appear that their sentiment is based more on agreeing to a shorter term — five years rather than six or seven — that facilitates future restructuring between the team and agent Ryan Tollner. That can and will happen, and I’m betting it happens as early as the second year, when the cap hit soars to $23.95 million.
That’s the only point at which we’ll be able to judge this contract’s cap friendliness.