The NFL has a salary cap of roughly $120 Million per year. Each year, teams struggle to keep emerging players whose contracts are nearing expiration because they cannot afford to pay them market value. Sometimes, as you may have heard, players will "hold out" with the hopes of restructuring a contract before it has expired.
For example, before last season began Chris Johnson of the Titans was unhappy with his existing (original) contract. He was set to make $1,065,000 in 2011. He felt he deserved to be the highest paid running back in football. He held out. It worked. On September 1, Johnson became the highest paid running back, agreeing to a four-year, $53.5 million contract extension, including $30 million guaranteed, with the Titans, ending his holdout.
Victor Cruz earns $540,000 this year. For some context, Antrelle Rolle will hit our salary cap budget for $9,100,000 this season. Eli for $9,600,000. Dominik Hixon and Ramses Barden each earned more than Cruz in 2012.
Here is a list of the other WRs mentioned in a NJ.com Pro Bowl analysis.
*Includes $4.5 Million Roster Bonus
**Plus incentives
***This rookie contract will almost certainly be
restructured in
Jones' favor.
****League minimum contract
Pretty amazing that we've been able to keep #80 on the field
with no contract disputes amid all of his success over the past two
seasons? Given the choice between a Cruz
holdout and a myriad of Chunky Soup commercials...I'll take the latter any day.
Thank God for commercials.
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