A day after the trade that sent WR Brandin Cooks to the Cowboys, Cooks and the Cowboys agreed to modify his contract. Todd Archer of ESPN was the first with the details Brandin Cooks contract:2 years, $20 million, $12 million guaranteed Bonus: $8 million2023 base salary: $4m (guaranteed)2024 base salary: $8m2025: voidable2026: voidable 2023 cap […]
The official numbers are in for Brandin Cooks thanks to Ben Volin and the contract certainly lives up to the hype. At $81 million over 5 years, Cooks is now tied with DeAndre Hopkins for the 3rd largest receiver contract by APY in the league. It’s a massive investment for a player who has been […]
When NFL observers start to get to work on looking how teams may change for the next season, the first place to reference is to look at the list of pending free agents coming from contracts that are expiring. This is easy because it’s very known as to when that expiration occurs. But what is […]
As I continue my study into contract fate in the NFL (as described here), before the 2023 season begins I thought I’d take a look as to some veteran players whose play in 2023 should be seen with an eye as to whether that season could be their last under their current contracts. This resulting […]
I thought for the draft this year I would do a series looking back at each draft from 2012 through 2017 and seeing what information we can get by breaking each draft down based mainly on career earnings So far we have gone over the 2012 and 2013 draft so now it is time for […]
The big trade today came down between the Cowboys and Texans where the Cowboys traded away a 5th and 6th round pick for WR Brandin Cooks of the Texans. As is usual with veteran player trades there are all kind of varying opinions on compensation so I just wanted to share a method that I […]
I wanted to start to take a look ahead at 2023 at potential player cuts at the wide receiver position. What I did here was take every player’s current yards and adjusted it for 17 games (yes I know the limitations to this method due to injuries) and then compared it to a players salary […]