Danielle Hunter signs extension with Texans for a BRINKS truck

[BuffaloBillyG]

Insane amount of money. He had 12 sacks last year. I hear Hendrickson is sending him a fruit basket as thanks.

Edited March 20 by BuffaloBillyG

[Aussie Joe]

Wow …

 

Texans are overpayers 

[scuba guy]

This is what happens when you don't have to pay a qb.

 

See San Francisco 

[SydneyBillsFan]

Fork me!

 

That's a tonne of dough for a DE with a girl's name.

[NoSaint]

27 minutes ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

Insane amount of money. He had 12 sacks last year. I hear Hendrickson is sending him a fruit basket as thanks.

rookie QBs let you give 5-10 guys 5-10m more than you should. 
 

we should’ve been so aggressive

[SoonerBillsFan]

31 minutes ago, scuba guy said:

This is what happens when you don't have to pay a qb.

 

See San Francisco 

And look at what SF had to lose this offseason with their QB Contract due. That Aiyuk Contract is a real albatross around their necks as well.

[L Ron Burgundy]

57 minutes ago, SydneyBillsFan said:

Fork me!

 

That's a tonne of dough for a DE with a girl's name.

Ah, sure thing there Sydney.

[stinky finger]

4 hours ago, NoSaint said:

rookie QBs let you give 5-10 guys 5-10m more than you should. 
 

we should’ve been so aggressive

[MiltonWaddams]

They sacrificed Tunsil for this?!

[Doc Brown]

1 hour ago, MiltonWaddams said:

They sacrificed Tunsil for this?!

[buffaloboyinATL]

9 hours ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

Insane amount of money. He had 12 sacks last year. I hear Hendrickson is sending him a fruit basket as thanks.

Cue the Will Anderson Jr holdout in 3-2-1…

[Big Turk]

Browns screwing the league over AGAIN by setting a ridiculously high market for a player.  First they did it with Watson, then they did it again with Garrett.  Owners probably would like to kick them out of the league again if they weren't such an easy W on their schedule.

[BarleyNY]

28 minutes ago, buffaloboyinATL said:

Cue the Will Anderson Jr holdout in 3-2-1…

that’ll be tough for Anderson to pull off since he only got drafted two years ago. also I don’t think people here understand how good Hunter is or how the NFL’s economics work. He’s getting $27.5M AAV over the next two seasons and he is comfortably in the top 10 of NFL Edge players. there is nothing wrong with Hunter’s extension and he’ll be off the books when they have to allocate a lot of cap space to Anderson. 

Edited March 20 by BarleyNY

[ddaryl]

9 hours ago, NoSaint said:

rookie QBs let you give 5-10 guys 5-10m more than you should. 
 

we should’ve been so aggressive

I think we were when Allen was on his 1st contract. Looking back we did not have much left to spend in the early years and a lot of it was dead cap hits. But most of Allens career the Bills have been  mostly between $2 milion to (-1 milion) of cap space left at the end of a season.

And who did we have that we wanted to extend with a massive upgraded contract instead of replace in those earlier years.

[aristocrat]

10 hours ago, scuba guy said:

This is what happens when you don't have to pay a qb.

 

See San Francisco 

That doesn’t mean you do this. He’s good but not that good. Now the price for will Anderson goes way up 

[Bruffalo]

Hunter is probably the 3-4th most important player on that team so it makes sense. He was a guy I really wanted the Bills to target but that obviously never happened.  

[The Firebaugh Kid]

Good player but cmonnnnn man. 

Ridiculous. 

[colin]

well, it looks like the NFL has decided that it goes

 

1 QB

tied for 2 WR/DE or Edge as the kids say

3 CB

4 LT

 

I'll say an inside outside pass rush guy (jones in KC) is right there w a DE, but the vast majority of them are DEs

 

now, DE is schematically more important that WR for just about every NFL team (ahem, cinci) so to get top stack WR money i think you need to be a bit more rarified than a DE.  so like, consistent 10+ sacks and mad pressures puts you way over 25mm and gets you into that 25-35 range, but for WR it's gotta be a pretty monster producer to get there (like a metcalf, higgins is getting quite a bit less than dan hunter in this thread, for example).

 

the one rub in all of this IMO is that aside from RB (used to be MLB, but i think that's changed some because they do different things in the nfl than ncaa now) CB is the most starter ready position as a rookie.  benford, white, gilmore, we've drafted lots of CBs who started as rookies and looked flippin good doing so.  it's mad rare for a qb, DE, and even a WR or LT to look that good as a rook.  IMO, that's the only thing that is keeping CB money from eclipsing WR money.

 

Gs and to a lesser extent Cs have had their pay scale up too, but the real red headed step children and S, TE, and off ball LB.  ironic that we (as of the prior two seasons) had so much in those positions (milano, knox, poy, hyde).  we've also dumped a lot of draft capital into RB (since allen came in what, 3 or 4 3rds, a 2nd, and a 4th?) but in the past two seasons we have had sick running production so i can't be too mad.

[Mr. WEO]

1 hour ago, Big Turk said:

Browns screwing the league over AGAIN by setting a ridiculously high market for a player.  First they did it with Watson, then they did it again with Garrett.  Owners probably would like to kick them out of the league again if they weren't such an easy W on their schedule.

 

Bills did it (briefly) with Josh.  Go yell at the Eagles for gifting Barkley another contract right after he signed the first one. THAT was dumb.

 

Watson's contract, at this point, is a pimple on the NFL's rump, as QB contracts quickly and steadily eclipsed it. Watson' average salary isn't even top 10 for QBs. 

[FireChans]

2 minutes ago, Mr. WEO said:

 

Bills did it (briefly) with Josh.  Go yell at the Eagles for gifting Barkley another contract right after he signed the first one. THAT was dumb.

 

Watson's contract, at this point, is a pimple on the NFL's rump, as QB contracts quickly and steadily eclipsed it. Watson' average salary isn't even top 10 for QBs. 

The fun thing about the Watson contract is not the dollar amount, it’s the guarantee/restructure magic that has him as an $81M cap hit in 2026 and $53M in 2027 (after his contract expires).