Great contract for a future Hall of Famer.
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A guess at what the contract might look like.
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Iām curious to see how this affects decker. If Detroit takes a tackle it could mean these extensions just priced decker off the team next year.
This deal is exciting news for us fans. We can celebrate this. Big time deal with the best OT in the nfl moving forward.
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So 2025 arenāt paying him is option 5th year anymore?
Iād says 42 mil SB
Thatās 6 mil per year spread out
2025 19mil 5th year option
26 15
27 15
28 15
29 25
Basically is a 6 year 131 million deal
He did the honorable thing by playing RT, despite the position paying less.
Iām very happy for this guy
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In fairnessā¦ he didnāt really have a choice on that one. A rookie isnāt going to demand the position heās going to play when he first enters the league. And Decker is pretty good.
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I think itās great, but if the plan was to make him the highest paid olineman, then why not play him on the 5th year option, then do that? Unless year one of this contract is actually less. St. Brown I get a lot more because heād been making peanuts vs production. Glad Sewell is locked up, but just wondering.
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I think the answer is found in what the highest paid linemen in 2025 will be making vs now.
It gives them the option to spread the signing bonus over 6 years (+any void years) instead of 4. Plus it reinforces the culture that the Lions organization is building.
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The newest thread explains it. Extension doesnāt kick in until after the 5th year option year, but I guess he gets the bonus money now and thatās spread over time. Sweet.
I feel like Deckerās is coming next. As of right now Decker is the better LT. If he starts slipping Iām sure theyāll switch sides. Brad said he wanted to re-sign Jonah. Clearly their game plan (as they have said) is to keep free agency low so they can sign their own guys. I love how they say āwe donāt know that playerā how important that is. Itās not just building a team, itās also building a family. Detroit Lions identity. Chemistry is so important.
The cap should never be a problem if handled well, and as it keeps going up. You canāt pay all your guys big contracts as proven with Jonah. Iām guessing Brad offered him a fair deal, but Jackson went for the money.
They should be able to keep most their players. Brad is doing it right. Even only doing 4 year deals. If ARSB, Sewel keep it up, get paid again, but thatās the thingā¦ itās only 4 years, you gotta keep it up. No 7 year bs take the money and quit bs.
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Whoās signing 7 year contracts in the NFL? Mahomes?
Brilliant.
Just imagaine if we had Brad and Disner when Suh was around.
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Decker has been in contract talks too. Given his age and wanting to retire here i expect to get something reasonable done with him. I think he stays for closer to 15mil a year.
Plus he just had a foot problem corrected that has been hurting him since before he was drafted. He says he feels fantastic now.
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We are, right? The extension kicks in after the 5th year option (which we picked up). If youāre saying why not wait to put pen to paperā¦. Well that contract signed a year or two from now will undoubtedly be at a higher amount than it is now. Contracts signed in 2 years from now for franchise All Pro tackles will 
be higher than this amount right now. The Lions get him locked up long term and he gets some nice security and clarity. Itās a win/win done by a forward thinking organization
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If we had Brad when Suh was around we probably would have also drafted Aaron Donald. Man what would this team look like with all those extra years of the draft hitting.
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Sewell and St. Brown are both playing on a HOF trajectory and have barely entered their primes. These are the kinds of guys you break the bank for in order to keep them on the team.
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