Strategies and Decisions: the Emmanuel Sanders Offer Sheet

[adsenseyu1] Big news today was the rare occurrence of a team signing a restricted free agent to an offer sheet, this time by the New England Patriots who offered a $2.5 million dollar contract to Emmanuel Sanders of the Pittsburgh Steelers. The portion of the contract that struck everyone as odd was the fact that […]

Steelers Match Offer Sheet for Sanders; Could they Consider Trade?

[adsenseyu1] As reported in multiple places tonight the Pittsburgh Steelers decided to match the Patriots $2.5 million dollar offer signed by WR Emmanuel Sanders. The Steelers now have a binding agreement with Sanders and he is no longer a free agent. I admit that I was a bit surprised that the Steelers matched the offer […]

2023 Compensatory Picks Potential

The 2022 league year in the NFL officially starts on Wednesday, March 16. The two day negotiating period of free agency commences on Monday, March 14, and it is then when we would typically get first knowledge of the largest contracts to be signed. With those contracts signed come the assignment of some players as […]

Projecting The 2021 Compensatory Picks

This article refers specifically to OTC’s projection for the 2021 NFL Draft’s compensatory picks. For details on the basics and methodology of projecting compensatory picks in general, please reference this article. Note that this projection does not include compensatory picks awarded via 2020 Resolution JC-2A, of which, per Michael David Smith of Pro Football Talk, […]