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...When you get 9 offensive TDs from a guy both running and passing then it is possible to think he is worth that money (which, in spite of some opinions, is just simply not top tier money). Plus at the time they also saw him as a homerun hitting returner and a very effective decoy...
TA got paid because of the 10 TDs. Period.
Snead has said so himself.
Right or wrong, it is possible to think that someone who produces that many TDs is worth the money. Maybe they got the value wrong but it had a basis in reason.
It's definitely not near one of the worst things to happen to the organization. I'd say high profile drafting failures are much worse and every organization does those.
Not Period,
Doug Baldwin a slot receiver signed right before Tavon and got a $46M deal if memory serves with about $24M guaranteed.
That set the bar,
Tavon comes right behind him with a $42M deal but $30M guaranteed.
Sure his 10 TD's helped but their is a pecking order and it was set.
The Rams and Snead obviously felt that TA was a swiss army knife who could score from anywhere on the field.
His contract was just structured in accordance with the market.
I agree....also look at what Allen Hurns signed for at about the same time. He wasn't even the teams best WR at the time and they gave him a deal very similar to Tavon's deal.
Tavon's deal wasn't as crazy as some make it out to be considering the year he was coming off of... over 900 yards rush/rec and 10 TD's
Hindsight says it was a mistake, but not the colossal mistake some make it out to be.
I don;t disagree with anything here. It's all compatible too and together all adds up.
One way to look at it is this. Here's a thought experiment---if he had come up after the 2014 season (which wasn't possible but go with it) he would not have been valued the way he was after 2015 After 2014 his market group--the players he was seen as equivalent to in terms of contract worth---would have been different. After 2014 he had around 460 yards rushing and receiving combined and 2 TDs. He was injured in 2014 but even the numbers extrapolated do not add up to the 2015 numbers.
So one way to see all the different points as working together is to say, the 10 TDs put him in a higher contract bracket than 2014 would have. That's completely compatible with saying the market set the contract numbers.
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