OT: Should NFL CBA treat RBs differently?

[Lotto4Life]

I interpret it as $60mm new money, so add on his 2018 and 2019 money from his rookie deal for a total of probably ~$70mm over 6 years.

[Valhalla]

I interpret it as $60mm new money, so add on his 2018 and 2019 money from his rookie deal for a total of probably ~$70mm over 6 years.

Yeah, I think you're right.

[ArrylT]

Happy for Gurley - guess we shall see how the other teams respond (ie Dallas with Elliott, SD with Gordon, etc).

[ericanadian]

Agree or not, I don't see a chance a in Hades the league getting rid of the franchise tag. The players are making huge sums of money and the league which holds the vast majority of the risks of business are sharing over 60% of all revenues. The salary cap for each team in 2018 is approximately 177 plus million. This is a 10 million increase per team over last year.

It is ridiculous think the NFL will cede all rules that insulate them from league risk and competitive balance. Players should consider themselves lucky to have some protections such as guaranteed contracts in such a violent sport.

A FRANCHISE CONTRACT is fully guaranteed. Anyone who doesn't believe that is a risk to an owner is flat out wrong. There are 14,554,000 reasons the Steelers now have risk on Bell.

The NFL average price is 4 Million.

To put Bell's contract in perspective. Bell is the highest paid RB in the league this year by $6,200,000.

Anyone who doesn't think he is winning as he pulls down 8.3 million more this year than Zeke and $10,000,000 more than the league average might want to reevaluate.

The owners are not sharing 60% of any type of revenue. The highest point is 55% of media revenue. After that it's 45% from sponsorships and 40% of local revenue. The owners have zero risk in the NFL. Owning a team is free money and one of the best investments around. There is a lineup of billionaires wanting in.

[Titans95]

Does this make Bell look less ridiculous for declining his offer? I mean the guy should be getting paid more than Gurley even at 26.

[UATahoe]

I mean, Bell is 2.5 years older at a position that seems to have a very volatile shelf life. Couple that with the workload Bell has seen, while prior past may point towards the same value, i can see where other teams would be hesitant to invest that much guaranteed money.

[Titans95]

I mean, Bell is 2.5 years older at a position that seems to have a very volatile shelf life. Couple that with the workload Bell has seen, while prior past may point towards the same value, i can see where other teams would be hesitant to invest that much guaranteed money.

That's definitely fair but that has to be the most frustrating argument from the players perspective. He wasn't a 1st round draft pick so he really didn't make much money on his rookie deal, should he have demanded to only get 300 touches per year instead of 400?