Post by Purple Pain on Jul 21, 2018 10:15:31 GMT -6
Florio: No meaningful progress between Packers, Aaron Rodgers
Link: profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/07/20/no-meaningful-progress-between-packers-aaron-rodgers/
It’s good that Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers isn’t thinking much about getting a new deal. Because it doesn’t look like he’ll be getting one imminently.
Per a league source with knowledge of the situation, no meaningful progress has been made recently between Rodgers and the Packers on a contract extension. That doesn’t mean a deal won’t happen, but nothing will be happening immediately — barring a sudden and dramatic change.
Although Rodgers, at an average of $22 million per year, definitely deserves a new deal, he’s not publicly clamoring for one. Which gives the Packers no real reason to rip up the current contract, which pays him $19.8 million this year and $20 million in 2019. That’s a very affordable $39.8 million for two seasons.
Afte that, the Packers could go choose to use the franchise tag once (at perhaps a tender of $27 million per year in 2020) and again (at a 20-percent raise over his 2020 tender). The question would then become whether the Packers would give him a 44-percent raise for one more season, in 2022 — when he’ll be closing in on his 39th birthday.
Regardless of what happens in 2022, the Packers could keep Rodgers for four years at a total payout of $99.2 million, if the franchise tag for quarterbacks is indeed $27 million in 2020. That’s an average of less than $25 million per year for four more years with Rodgers.
So what would the Packers give him instead? More importantly, what does he want?
Per a league source with knowledge of the situation, no meaningful progress has been made recently between Rodgers and the Packers on a contract extension. That doesn’t mean a deal won’t happen, but nothing will be happening immediately — barring a sudden and dramatic change.
Although Rodgers, at an average of $22 million per year, definitely deserves a new deal, he’s not publicly clamoring for one. Which gives the Packers no real reason to rip up the current contract, which pays him $19.8 million this year and $20 million in 2019. That’s a very affordable $39.8 million for two seasons.
Afte that, the Packers could go choose to use the franchise tag once (at perhaps a tender of $27 million per year in 2020) and again (at a 20-percent raise over his 2020 tender). The question would then become whether the Packers would give him a 44-percent raise for one more season, in 2022 — when he’ll be closing in on his 39th birthday.
Regardless of what happens in 2022, the Packers could keep Rodgers for four years at a total payout of $99.2 million, if the franchise tag for quarterbacks is indeed $27 million in 2020. That’s an average of less than $25 million per year for four more years with Rodgers.
So what would the Packers give him instead? More importantly, what does he want?
Link: profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/07/20/no-meaningful-progress-between-packers-aaron-rodgers/
