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June 15, 2013Barkevious Mingo hasn’t signed a deal with the Browns just yet, even as he was on hand for the new sign to be placed on what will now be known as FirstEnergy stadium. With the new collective bargaining agreement and rookie wage slotting, it’s only a matter of time before Mingo’s deal gets done. Still, as some people in front of Mingo and also behind him in the first round have signed, I was curious what his deal might look like.
First up, let’s look at the deal that Ezekiel Ansah signed as the fifth pick in the draft for the Detroit Lions. Ansah got four years and a nice signing bonus of nearly $12 million.
Ezekiel Ansah | Salary | Bonus | Cap Number | |
1 | 0.41 | 2.98 | 3.38 | |
2 | 1.25 | 2.98 | 4.23 | |
3 | 2.10 | 2.98 | 5.07 | |
4 | 2.94 | 2.98 | 5.92 | |
Total | 18.59 |
Johnathan Cooper, the seventh pick to the Cardinals, has not signed a deal yet, but Tavon Austin has. Austin was the 8th pick to the St. Louis Rams. His deal included $7.653 million in signing bonuses. I guessed on what the salaries looked like per year because that information wasn’t available yet, but this should give you an idea.
Tavon Austin | Salary | Bonus | Cap Number | |
1 | 0.50 | 1.91 | 2.41 | |
2 | 1.25 | 1.91 | 3.16 | |
3 | 1.60 | 1.91 | 3.51 | |
4 | 1.75 | 1.91 | 3.66 | |
Total | 12.75 |
Lastly, the guy who was drafted 6th overall a year prior was the Dallas Cowboys’ Morris Claiborne. He received a $10.629 million signing bonus and I believe his contract looked something like this, although I couldn’t verify his first year salary.
Morris Claiborne | Salary | Bonus | Cap Number | |
1 | – | 2.66 | 2.66 | |
2 | 1.13 | 2.66 | 3.79 | |
3 | 1.87 | 2.66 | 4.53 | |
4 | 2.61 | 2.66 | 5.26 | |
Total | 16.23 |
So knowing all that, let’s go ahead and put a guesstimate together of what Barkevious Mingo’s contract might look like, assuming Joe Banner and company conform to some of the convention that we’ve shown above. First things first, Justin Blackmon got $18.5 million in the 5th spot last year and Ansah got $18.59 million a year later. Using that logic, if Claiborne received $16.23 million, then Mingo could get somewhere in the ballpark of $16.4 if we’re estimating on the high side? Let’s apply the same logic to the signing bonus and assume that Mingo will get a slight bump to $10.7 million in signing bonus. If Banner complies with common convention, you’re left with something approximating this.
Barkevious Mingo | Salary | Bonus | Cap Number | |
1 | 0.41 | 2.68 | 3.09 | |
2 | 1.05 | 2.68 | 3.73 | |
3 | 1.75 | 2.68 | 4.43 | |
4 | 2.50 | 2.68 | 5.18 | |
Total | 16.41 |
So, we’ll have to see if Banner tries to get cute and front load the contract even more while the Browns have cap space, or if he’s content to just let the pretty reasonable rookie wage scale do its stuff as-is. As it stands today, Daryl Ruiter reported a few days ago that Mingo wasn’t “sweating” the deal and is assuming it will get done in time for training camp.
Regardless of where, exactly, the numbers fall out, that’s at least comforting. In more ways than one, nobody ever wants to have another Brady Quinn situation again.
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gotta love that rookie deals help teams instead of hurting them now
Some of the old rookie contracts seem unfathomable today. Sam Bradford for six years at ~$80 million?!? That hefty figure sets the Rams back quite a ways roster-wise.
In 2010, we gave rookie Joe Haden a five year, $50 million deal, and he was the 7th overall pick. What a couple of years makes now that we’re looking to just give the 6th overall pick Mingo just $4 million per year.
What Brady Quinn situation? The contract or the football
put those two together
(bad playing on a big contract – though Quinn wasn’t nearly as bad as a Warren or C.Brown or Winslow as far as killing the cap while not performing on the field)