Where Haynesworth's dollars will fit in among DTs
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Posted by ESPN.com's Paul Kuharsky Haynesworth Contracts can be read in all different sorts of ways depending on what the person reading them wants to see. When the Titans failed to lock down defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth with a long term deal by Tuesday's deadline, the statement from GM Mike Reinfeldt said the franchise tender of $7.25 million "makes him the highest paid ...
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One man’s take on Haynesworth’s contract situation
Published 7/17/2008 by Andrew Strickert at Total Titans
... to note that the reported $40M offered to Haynesworth is not the most important number to look at. The amount of guaranteed money (primarily the signing bonus and first year base salary) is the number most important to players and their agents. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Unfortunately, we don’t know how much of that reported 40M offer is guaranteed but it’s a safe bet that it’s less than 20M, which is probably in the neighborhood of what Albert was looking for. Paul Kuharsky reported some of the numbers for the five highest paid DTs this year. According to ...
