how exactly does a 20 year old kid who had the opportunity garner starting time as QB at a major Division I school in football know he is "clearly" better at baseball?
He probably would not still be in the NBA, but he sure as hell wouldn't be a PG. He has earned $2.1M in the NFL, so he has done well. The question is whether basketball would have been a better earnings opportunity because the overseas dollars to be made once he was out of the NBA.
You are batsh!t crazy, Terrelle Pryor's are a dime a dozen in the NBA.....
Extremely unlikely he earns that. It is non-guaranteed and usually in that situation the player is either released outright or signed to a one year deal at a much lower salary and bonus. I'd guess he has a chance to earn his $760k minimum salary and a $100K bonus.
Because you don't step on the field without a contract..If hes released before his 1st game,he get his signing bonus,THATS ALL .First paycheck on your contract is 1 week AFTER the 1st REGULAR season game. Hope this explains this issue
The Browns had no choice,If they want to see what hes got..$1.6 may be the minimium this year for a player that been in the league a couple of years.If he makes the team and isn't on the game roster, and put on the practice squad, he receives 5k a game.
It was just a tender offer, so they could have RFA matching rights on him. He doesn't even have a signing bonus with that. He is guaranteed $0 right now, beyond show up pay for required work. Completely different than what you are thinking it is.
No. The tender is non-guaranteed, so they can cut him at any time and not have any cap implications and not pay out any bonus. They gave him the tender so they could restrict his FA options. This is very common practice. I think you just aren't up to date on the RFA process. This is not uncommon and right to match tendered FAs almost never play out their tender. I'd guess less than 10%. It is much, much different than the RFAs with even just original round compensation.
Sam Young played Center in HS and had a similar skill set. The difference is Pryor was rated higher by recruiting sites when they were Jr's.
Playing WR full-time in college and the pros - I agree. The problem is I think his heart was with basketball, and he liked the idea of playing QB. He had too many h$ndl$rs involved steering his $hip.
That is crappy for him but at the worst he's going to make more these two weeks on a Major League contract than he made probably every year in the minor leagues combined. If my calculations are correct he will make around 27K these past few weeks.
Yeah, the situations aren't really similar. Displacement for a team over the cap with important depth players is vastly different than a team like the Browns (way under the cap and not a contender) who are taking a flyer to keep that player on contract and in their offseason programs instead of taking the chance they are signed by someone else without compensation. And in Pryor's case they get a 3rd rounder if he was signed by someone else, so not offering the tender would be idiotic, unless you thought he had no chance to make the team or were up against the cap. Most likely he doesn't make the team or gets cut at some point and maybe resigned to a lower total deal.
I'm not sure I am following your numbers. The tender Pryor was offered is fully non-guaranteed. If he gets cut he gets $0, beyond mandatory practice or game payments of which he actually participated in. Many teams use these holds and then negotiate a new deal for guys like these where they get a small guarantee (like $100-300k) and a lower total value contract that probably is tied to a minimum salary.
