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Sammy Watkins has to be seeing sugar plums dancing in his head.
The insane Bucs extended Mike Evans by giving him a new 5 year deal that averages $16.5 mil per year !!!!!!!
Bucs are completely nuts. Evans is a good weapon. But is he worth taking up 9% of the entire salary cap? And frankly, I'm not sure any WR can give a team the production it needs to warrant that kind of money.
This is exactly the thing the Rams must not and will not do. Pay a good player HOF player money.
Bye bye Sammy. The WR bar just got set higher. Somebody is going to give you in the $14-$15 mil range. It won't be the Rams.
Evans has been amazing so far. If he got 16 then I doubt Sammy gets more than 12
A week or so ago I did a Spotrac style eval. using Kenny Stills, Devante Adams, Randall Cobb, Alshon Jeffrey, Doug Baldwin, and DeSean Jackson's stats as comparables.
The number I arrived at was $11.84M.
Full Evaluation HereWhen you plug in Sammy's numbers - mainly career receiving yards and TDs - and compare them to Evans' numbers, Watkins produced roughly 72% of what Evans did.
If he was payed at a comparable corresponding rate, Watkins would get a 5 year, $59.3M contract which equates to $11.87M annually.
It's interesting to me that $11.84 and $11.87 are nearly the same. Numbers wise right under $12M makes sense.
Of course, these evals are only going by production stats. It's not accounting for market forces... maybe there is a frenzy and he ends up with much more but I still think somewhere between $11.5M and $12M get's it done.
