Deonte Harty signs with the Bills (2yr/9.5M, up to 13.5M) (1 Viewer)

[tim martin]

Loved him whole here and made a lot of plays for us. I wish him well

 

[St. Geezy]

My gosh, you can’t make these contracts up. The money teams are throwing at former Saints players is ridiculous. He basically won the lottery. I don’t think any other team except for the Bills were going to offer him that kind of money. He is an injury waiting to happen just because of his small stature.

Agreed. I know players are worth whatever anyone is willing to pay them, but this seems like a massive overpay for someone that's barely on the field and when he is, the impact is minimal outside of a VERY small handful of highlight plays.

 

[CowtownSaint]

Shame, he was great here and has been my favourite return man by far as a Saint. Crazy to see how many guys are signing away from us for big money! At the end of the day Shaheed is THAT guy and more probably going forward so not as big of a loss as it could have been.

 

[Snakehead]

Good for him. Another positive subtraction for our comp pick equation.

Small school KR/PR guys are a dime a dozen as UDFAs, next.

 

[Rouxble]

With Hardy’s departure, I’m reminded of the late 55yd TD from Winston to Hardy in week one of the 2021 season. I got a kick out of Brees’ postgame commentary about that throw:

 

[VaeVictus]

My gosh, you can’t make these contracts up. The money teams are throwing at former Saints players is ridiculous. He basically won the lottery. I don’t think any other team except for the Bills were going to offer him that kind of money. He is an injury waiting to happen just because of his small stature.

It'll be a whole lot less. NFL (incentive laden) contracts are usually massively inflated by agents when announcing to the clickbait reporters who want to be first.

 

[BeerBaron]

Massive overpay

 

[44slayer]

That is an expensive addition to their Tub Club. Glad we moved on from him, we dont need inactive all stars.

 

[scott88]

Hopefully large enough to offset a comp pick for a signing.

Saints have already reached the limit on comp picks for next season (4)

 

[SoggyBottomBoy]

Wow. That's a sweet contract. Good for him.

In the QB carousel season of 2021 he was probably the most reliable receiver at getting separation and moving the chains. And I just love how he goes straight ahead on punt returns.

Good luck, Mr. Harty. And thanks for not going to the Panthers, Bucs or Falcons.

 

[sfidc3]

I wish him well, but players of his stature rarely have long careers in the NFL….

 

[LordPoopington]

He showed up in the 2019 and 2020 playoffs. But as the TB game showed in 2020, he could be a big asset when healthy (although he looked shaky last year even before he got hurt) but he was prone to injuries.

 

[44slayer]

I wish him well, but players of his stature rarely have long careers in the NFL….

Already missed 23 games in 4 years due to injury and 3 to suspension. Not to mention the 9 fumbles in the games he did play. Buffalo did us a favor, we will break a table for em.

 

[St. Geezy]

Saints have already reached the limit on comp picks for next season (4)

Yes, but it will still set us up to be able to offset another one of the Compensatory Free Agents we sign, if he remains in the overall comp pool, which I currently doubt he will.

 

[killerdescore]

Nice for him ,that's a lot of $
But i'd rather keep Shaheed than Harty