Terms of the Keenan Lewis contract

SAINT__STEVEN said

I am glad we have him, clearly the FO identified him as our priority target and got their man. Does anyone else wonder why we paid him the most $ of all the available CB's though? Seems like a depressed market (like it was for most all FA's). I don't think it's a bad deal for us by any means, just curious why Smith and some of the other top rated CB's got so much less??

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They didn't get less, they got shorter term deals with more guaranteed-per-year.

Smith, for instance got $3 mil per year and the same amount guaranteed over a 3 year, not 5, deal.

This was a very cap friendly contract. He's cuttable (not that I hope we do that) in year 3 of his deal, and not even super heavily backloaded, as his cap number never exceeds $7 million. His final four years look like the deal we have Jabari Greer, but we also get the advantage of this super cap friendly year#1