SemperFeist Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriminalMind Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 (edited) 5 year deal done Edited July 31, 2018 by CriminalMind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gnat Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Can you Digg is sucka. Sounds like it is coming in at the range of $14 mil per year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriminalMind Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Hope we were able to mustard our leverage to get him below true market value Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TENINCH Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Awesome. Couldn't let him go....especially after creating one of the greatest playoff miracles in NFL History. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gopherwrestler Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 $14M seems like a lot, but if he has a healthy season his value could end up much much higher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriminalMind Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Hope the $14 is with all the incentives reached & not the base ish range Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingsrule Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 I'm glad that Diggs has been locked up, especially over Barr at this point. Diggs and Thielen are such a good duo. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vike daddy Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 9 minutes ago, CriminalMind said: Hope we were able to mustard our leverage to get him below true market value yes, it would allow us to ketchup. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gnat Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 I think that the deal with pretty much in line with market value. https://overthecap.com/position/wide-receiver/ Has a list of WR's, $14 million is #10 salary overall, it's lower than Sammy Watkins and Jarvis Landry, and I'd want both a whole lot less than Diggs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriminalMind Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 (edited) Brown = $17M (good) Evans = $16.5M (meh) Hopkins = $16.2 (good) Cooks = 16.2M (overpaid) Watkins = $16M (good) Landry = 15.1M (overpaid) Green = $15M (great) Adams = $14.5M (ok) Jones = $14.25M (great) Thomas = $14M (good) Robinson = $14M (meh) Hilton = $13M (ok) Jeffery = $13M (great, & recent) *(roughly factoring contract value, gaureentee, when signed and player talent) My preference was around that $13M deal that Alshon Jeffery received Edited July 31, 2018 by CriminalMind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boda Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Love this deal. 15M was what was being tossed around a lot and it sounds like its going to be around that 14M mark. I honestly believe with another good season his value on the open market would have reached 17M(+) This also allows us the franchise tag to use on Barr if a deal can't be reached. Im just very excited to know Diggs is locked up long term. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDBrocks Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 What a great offseason - great work, Vikes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krauser Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 They were never getting Diggs for less than $14M per year long term. He’d be getting $16M+ in March as a UFA, or the tag for even more than that. Have to put those contracts in terms of the cap environment in which they were signed. Green and Jones for instance signed long enough ago that their deals were for a higher percentage of the cap than Adams or Landry got. So the WR deals aren’t so much (great) or (bad) as (old) and (new). I wrote a fanpost at DN this spring projecting he’d get $15.2M: https://www.dailynorseman.com/2018/5/31/17412434/projecting-stefon-diggs-second-contract . That’s got the comparables in terms of per game stats and the math for cap percentages. Didn’t think he’d take less than Adams ($14.5M), but maybe they gave him better guarantees. This is great news. He’s going to be a superstar. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriminalMind Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 If they great him lower then Adams $14.5M, sure its a good contract, compared to recent comparable, because I have Diggs over Adams in terms of skill level. Cooks & Landry were definite overpayments by the respective teams, as those 2 players had more bargaining power then Diggs did (right now). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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