Correct me on the numbers, I mean! Not correct my thinking, lol. We've had enough of that.
I looked up Aaron Donald's current contract at this link [
www.spotrac.com]
In 2017 his base salary was $1,802,250.
This year his base salary is $6,892,000.
So here's what's making me scratch my head -
In particular, regarding the idea that Donald may just sit out this year if he doesn't get the contract he wants.
He was already in negotiation with the Rams last year. They made him an offer then, which he could have signed.
We don't know but let's just assume for the sake of doing this that it was 20M per year, not the 21M that he's being offered this year.
If he had signed that contract LAST YEAR, he would have been paid $18M more than he actually ended up getting in 2017.
And he would have gotten another $13M more in 2018 than he is set to get right now.
That's a total of $31 MILLION dollars left on the table. And if he sits this year, then it's $18M from 2017 plus the full $20M from 2018 that he won't get because he's sitting. So that's a total of $38M GONE!
Gone, because he can't get those years of his life back and he can't get those years of his career back.
How, HOW is he ever going to sign another contract that recoups the 38M that are gone if he sits?
He can't. He just can't!
If he signed a 4 year contract he'd have to get the $25M he wants plus another (38 divided by 4) 9.5M PER YEAR to arrive at the same place!
Someone would have to give him $34M a year for 4 years in 2019 to get him finally back to the money he has already lost and will continue to lose if he wants to sit in 2018.
That isn't going to happen. So I don't get it. How has any of this helped Aaron Donald?
What has any of this accomplished other than giving his agent a "tough guy that you better not screw around with" reputation?
This whole thing is a giant "lose" for AD as far as I can see.
And of course it's a loss for the Rams, too, if they end up parting ways with a great defensive player, and don't have his services.
Maybe it'll end up being a loss for the agent, too. If players look at what happened and say "I don't want to end up in that situation. I don't want that agent."
That would be a lose-lose-lose.
Ramily!
