Recent Star Running Back Contracts

[lk8701]

Le'Veon Bell signed a four-year, $52-million contract with the New York Jets before the 2019 season. LOL.

In July 2018, the Rams signed Gurley to a four-year, $60 million contract extension with $45 million in guarantees. LOL.

Ezekiel Elliott signed a 6 year, $90,000,000 contract with the Dallas Cowboys, including a $7,500,000 signing bonus, $50,052,137 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $15,000,000. LOL.

The Steelers (an intelligent franchise/front office) were smart to not give in to Bell's demands.

 

[bewp7]

haha yeah it is stupid...follow my rb rules!

1 never draft a rb in the top 20
2 never give a rb a second contract

u might get burned! there is some freak player out there...emmitt smith, adrian peterson...but the numbers are probly 90% in ur favor! jerry broke both and look were it got him!

 

[Stash]

Le'Veon Bell signed a four-year, $52-million contract with the New York Jets before the 2019 season. LOL.

In July 2018, the Rams signed Gurley to a four-year, $60 million contract extension with $45 million in guarantees. LOL.

Ezekiel Elliott signed a 6 year, $90,000,000 contract with the Dallas Cowboys, including a $7,500,000 signing bonus, $50,052,137 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $15,000,000. LOL.

The Steelers (an intelligent franchise/front office) were smart to not give in to Bell's demands.

Yes, there have been several high profile signings recently that have only strengthened the argument that you should never give a big money second contract to a running back.

We will soon be added to that list (some rightfully have us there already).

 

[CATCH17]

Funny that fans on a forum can see it but the Jones boys couldn't.

 

[jwooten15]

And Bell has fallen off a cliff. We should have given Zeke the Murray treatment — run him into the ground for 4 years on a rookie contract, then let him get overpaid by someone else in FA.

But nope. Jerry gave in to the whiner and now he’s paying for it

 

[stilltheguru]

Le'Veon Bell signed a four-year, $52-million contract with the New York Jets before the 2019 season. LOL.

In July 2018, the Rams signed Gurley to a four-year, $60 million contract extension with $45 million in guarantees. LOL.

Ezekiel Elliott signed a 6 year, $90,000,000 contract with the Dallas Cowboys, including a $7,500,000 signing bonus, $50,052,137 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $15,000,000. LOL.

The Steelers (an intelligent franchise/front office) were smart to not give in to Bell's demands.

Long term they were smart but they wouldve won more games with bell as opposed to Connor

 

[Kaiser]

The Steelers paid 12 Million for his last season there, which roughly what Zeke is making. And Zeke's contract is much more backloaded than deals like Gurley's.

 

[CATCH17]

And Bell has fallen off a cliff. We should have given Zeke the Murray treatment — run him into the ground for 4 years on a rookie contract, then let him get overpaid by someone else in FA.

But nope. Jerry gave in to the whiner and now he’s paying for it

I thought they were turning the corner on doing stupid deals after they got rid of Murray and had the awareness to let D.Ware walk even though he had a little left.

Then a few years go by and they get stupid again.




What blows my mind about the Dak deal is that if they really do sign him the fact they didn't do it earlier after telling us how much conviction they have for him but dragging their feet on signing him.

They screwed up the Dak deal and like Zeke they will ultimately let Dak and his agent pick the dollar amount.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

"Pay the man!"

"It's not your money!"

What else we got? Oh yeah, this one's my favorite.

"Market Value!"

 

[JonesBoys]

And Bell has fallen off a cliff. We should have given Zeke the Murray treatment — run him into the ground for 4 years on a rookie contract, then let him get overpaid by someone else in FA.

But nope. Jerry gave in to the whiner and now he’s paying for it

Then trade him. Instead of paying Zeke they could have easily traded him then and might have received really good compensation in return. Now he has next to no value with that contract and his play. Now he will he dead money soon. Just another example of the Jones boys not having a clue on how to build an NFL team in 2020. Jerrah must still think it’s 1993 and remember the Emmitt situation.

 

[Whyjerry]

Le'Veon Bell signed a four-year, $52-million contract with the New York Jets before the 2019 season. LOL.

In July 2018, the Rams signed Gurley to a four-year, $60 million contract extension with $45 million in guarantees. LOL.

Ezekiel Elliott signed a 6 year, $90,000,000 contract with the Dallas Cowboys, including a $7,500,000 signing bonus, $50,052,137 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $15,000,000. LOL.

The Steelers (an intelligent franchise/front office) were smart to not give in to Bell's demands.

Never give a RB a second contract. Never never never...

 

[Kingofholland]

Zeke was a huge part of our offense so I can understand giving him an extension, but we should have never caved to his demands and let him play out his contract. At this point he would be a free agent at the end of this season and likely wouldn't be getting a monster deal from the Cowboys.

 

[TwistedL0g1k]

When the team uses the #4 overall pick on Elliott, and he performs well, it becomes very difficult to let the player walk in free agency. That's one of the problems with using such an extremely high pick on a RB. If the team wants a short term rental, don't use such a premium pick. The team felt trapped.

Football on a macro level is a game of resource allocation- and the Cowboys have handled this very poorly for a long time.

 

[jsb357]

But Jerry paid a holdout Emmit and won a Superbowl!

Jerry still looking for the gloryholes that dried up in the 90's.

 

[kumizi]

The Steelers paid 12 Million for his last season there, which roughly what Zeke is making. And Zeke's contract is much more backloaded than deals like Gurley's.

yes

A 1/$12 mil and 6/$90 mil contract are essentially the same thing. Nothing to see here folks.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

You know what's funny no one will admit but these same people saying you shouldn't have paid Zeke were upset the Cowboys didn't pay Demarco.

 

[buybuydandavis]

We will soon be added to that list (some rightfully have us there already).

Many said so before Zeke's extension. It wasn't just trends in the NFL, you could see the decline in his performance.

 

[buybuydandavis]

You know what's funny no one will admit but these same people saying you shouldn't have paid Zeke were upset the Cowboys didn't pay Demarco.

I wouldn't have paid either.

 

[Ranching]

Funny that fans on a forum can see it but the Jones boys couldn't.

Jerry signed Zeke to piss off @aria He's gonna sign Dak to piss off pappy.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

I wouldn't have paid either.

Probably correct. I had no issues paying either and I would've had no issue with letting either one walk either.

Cowboys felt the pressure of getting Romo back to 2014 Romo so they spent the pick on Zeke. It was stupid at the time and stupid now. But once they did it they were re-signing ZEke. I can't fault them for not wanting to keep a investment but that doesn't mean its not stupid.