Aidan Hutchinson signed

Field Yates
@FieldYates

· 7m

The Lions have signed number 2 overall pick DE Aidan Hutchinson, per his agent @MikeMcCartney7.

Honolulu Blues
@HonoluluBlues_

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Aidan Hutchinson has signed a 4-year, fully guaranteed deal for $35,713,38 with a signing bonus of $23,153,372 (per

@RapSheet)

Tom Pelissero

@TomPelissero

· 10m

Aidan Hutchinson’s four-year contract with the #Lions is worth $35,713,

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Boy, I sure miss the days of bickering, bad feelings and holdouts…NOT!

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is there anything to actually negotiate anymore?

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Here’s what Hutch’s contract will look like;

Signing
Signing/ Base Roster Cash Bonus Salary
Year Option Salary Bonus Paid Amortization Cap Charge
2022 23,153,372 705,000 - 23,858,372 5,788,343 6,493,343
2023 - 870,000 1,458,336 2,328,336 5,788,343 8,116,679
2024 - 985,000 2,966,672 3,951,672 5,788,343 9,740,015
2025 - 1,100,000 4,475,008 5,575,008 5,788,343 11,363,351
Total 23,153,372 3,660,000 8,900,016 35,713,388 23,153,372 35,713,388
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our players be like “# more cheddar in 2023.”

I think it’s mostly down to negotiating payment terms, like how much money the player gets up front.

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There’s really not a lot to negotiate any more. Hutch’s contract was pretty much set in stone. The two things that I’m aware of that they can negotiate is whether the signing bonus is paid all at once or if it’s split in two payments (Sewell got half at signing, the other half at the start of training camp). And whether the cash paid is in base salary of a roster bonus (he’d get it earlier if it was a roster bonus). But all pretty minor.

You get into the 2nd and 3rd round picks and you negotiate offsets (if draft pick is a bust, he gets to collect some or all of his rookie contract plus collect on a new contract with new team).

Later round picks, there are no guarantees other than signing bonuses and no offsets, you just negotiate the amount of the signing bonus. The full amount of signing bonuses are paid at signing.

That’s most of the stuff, there are other stuff, but most of the rest has to do with injuries.

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Thanks @DeadStroke, always nice to read your factual posts.

There is a signings tracker here: First-round draft picks contract tracker: Lions sign Aidan Hutchinson, No. 2 overall pick, to $35M rookie deal - CBSSports.com

On to Jamo!

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I remember that Joey Bosa had a contract holdout with the Chargers because he didn’t like the terms of his signing bonus. The total value was set by the wage scale, but Bosa wanted more of his money sooner.

It didn’t have to do with the amount, it had to do with the timing of the payment. Chargers wanted to defer paying the majority of the signing bonus until the next season. Joey/agent wanted the bonus paid in 2016.

Hell I’m just glad he’s signed, I still can’t believe we actually have him.

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23 million signing bonus. I’ll take one sack per million in his rookie season please!

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