Originally posted by Giedi:
Agree, however, personally in a normal year, I'd be totally against backloading. I particularly detest backloading, because it doesn't reflect the reality that football players athletic skills erode over time (In general). Typically a football player (as you well know) always gets injured, it's the nature of the sports. So that means a typical football player aged 23 typically has a 3+ year average career. So a two year contract is almost 66% of a typical football players career. A 3 year contract is almost 100% of a typical football players career. So backloading a two or three year contract is paying the player *more* when his skills are at the lowest of his career. To me that's not a reflection of reality at all.
Having said that, this is *not a typical year* for sure, and so backloading Kittle - while detestable to me - has to be an option because of the cap reduction in 2021. If we can get him signed it's going to be great for our team.
Right this isn't a typical yr...it's harder and harder for teams with a ton of talent to front load deals. I still think CMC's contract is a good blue print
https://overthecap.com/player/christian-mccaffrey/5592/