Larry Johnson signs with Chiefs, and here's what sucks about the NFL
 

Larry Johnson just signed a 5 year deal with $19M in guaranteed money. (The contract is like 5 years, 43.5M...but the guarantee is what really matters)

Ladainian Tomlinson got $21M in guarantees with his contract. He'll go down as probably the best back to ever play the game.

When JaMarcus Russel finally signs with the Raiders, his guaranteed money will be over $30M, and he's never played a snap in the NFL.

This is what's fucked up about the NFL. Two of the greatest players in the league get only 2/3 of the money as the first draft pick. (and if you say it's just cause he's a QB, Joe Thomas the 3rd pick got more guaranteed money than either Tomlinson or Johnson)

They should have a rookie pool like they do in the NBA. You get paid a certain amount based on what slot you were drafted, then after you prove yourself for 4 years you can get the megabucks.

What are the incentives on LT's contract? Does he have one of those deals where it balloons up if he leads the league in rushing, TDs, etc?

I'm sure there are incentives and bonuses, but not like what you see in baseball.

If he led the league in rushing and that called for his salary the next year to double, they would just renegotiate the deal or have to cut him because of the cap.

No matter what the numbers are they're all basically 3 year deals.

LT's deal is technically $60M for 8 years, but he'll see less than half of that before it's time to renegotiate or he gets old and they let him go.

They need to do a rookie setup like the nba. These holdouts for a shitton of money when you havent played is bullshit.

damn those rookies make bank