As a result, Carolina was able to lock up Newton for just 3.3% of the cap, which enabled the team to overpay players like Mare. As a rookie, Newton was grossly underpaid, with a salary cap value of $4M while the salary cap was $120M. After all, if teams weren’t forced to pay so much to rookies, there would be more money to go around for the “proven” veterans, right?īut that logic doesn’t work once we look at Newton, who has been the Panthers most valuable player over the last four years, and will probably be the team’s most valuable player over the next six, too. Sure, a rookie might make less now, but he’d get to make more in the future. But the new system was, by some, argued as an improvement because only the “proven players” would be rewarded. The rookie wage scale has always been B.S., and I’ve said so much from the moment it was instituted. Newton lost real dollars on his rookie contract due to the new structure, and he’s never going to get to make those up. Newton’s leverage was slightly limited by the fact that Carolina had him under contract for $14.66M in 2015, and could use the franchise tag on him in ’16 (which would probably cost Carolina around $20M).īut the real issue is the lack of any “catch up” payment. The contract extension Newton signed is pretty close to a “market value” contract for Newton, although I do think he’d make more on the open market than what he just received.
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According to Over The Cap, Newton received a $22.5 million signing bonus and $7.5 million roster bonus upon signing the contract, and you can read Jason’s full article on Newton’s new contract here. This week, Newton signed a five-year contract extension worth an additional $103.8 million. I assume that most everyone would agree that Newton is now a “proven player” or else that is a term without any meaning. Even look at the comments to my old article: there are several who expressed the idea that proven players should get rewarded at the expense of unproven players, and Newton would benefit from that scenario once he became a proven player. Much of the outrage over what rookies made under the old Collective Bargaining Agreement was due to the fact that “unproven” players were making so much money. With the new rookie wage scale, the NFL had taken money that was going to go into Newton’s pocket and placed it into the wallets of players like Mare. I was not a fan of the way rookies were treated under the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, and the Mare/Newton situation was a perfect example of the problem. Cam disingenuously listening to his head coach Four years ago, I noted with some annoyance that the Carolina Panthers signed Olindo Mare to a 4-year, $12M deal, while at the same time signing Cam Newton to a 4-year, $22M contract.
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