Arizona Cardinals Pro Bowl safety Budda Baker received a four-year contract extension worth $59 million, making the highest-paid safety in NFL history. All we knew to start with was that he received a $10 million signing bonus with $22.1 million in total guarantees.
The details of his contract are out.
His 2020 salary was adjusted to an even $1 million. He received $10 million to sign.
He will make $4 million in fully guaranteed salary in 2021 and will be paid a $7.1 million option bonus.
The signing bonus will count $2 million against the cap this year and then the following four. His option bonus will prorate over the four years of the extension. He has not guarantees after 2020.
His salary jumps up to $11 million in 2022, then to almost $13.01 million in 2023 and finally to $14.2 million in 2024.
Here is the cap breakdown per year.
2020: $1 million salary, $2 million new signing bonus proration, $776,813 old signing bonus proration from his rookie deal — $3.77 million cap hit.
2021: $4 million fully guarantees salary, $3.78 million in bonus prorations — $7.78 million cap hit
2022: $11 million salary, $3.78 million in bonus prorations — $14.78 million cap hit
2023: $13.1 million salary, $3.78 million in prorations — $16.88 million cap hit
2024: $14.2 million salary, $3.78 million in prorations — $17.98 million cap hit
They could get out of the deal after 2021 and save money against the cap.
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