C J Leak signs with the Bucs???

#5
#5
another sign that Chuckie's return to the Hill as head coach will be sooner rather than later...read the signs my friends, it's all coming together.
 
#7
#7
That's just what the Bucs needed - yet ANOTHER worthless QB on their roster.
 
#12
#12
rexvol said:
another sign that Chuckie's return to the Hill as head coach will be sooner rather than later...read the signs my friends, it's all coming together.
Click to expand...

sorry, but Gruden will take another NFL job before he takes the pay cut.
 
#16
#16
GAVol said:
I think that's for guys on the active roster though. Pretty sure that practice squad players make significantly less.
Click to expand...


Practice squad players get paid $4,000 a week, which is good pay. The league minimum for a rookie, as already stated, is $285,000/yr.

after 1st year minimum is $360,000
after 2nd year minimum is $435,000
after 3rd year minimum is $510,000
after 4-6 year minimum is $595,000
after 7-9 year minimum is $720,000
after 10+ year minimum is $820,000
 
#17
#17
So a practice squad player who sticks for an entire year makes $64,000.
 
#19
#19
That's interesting. $64,000 is not exactly a pittance, but it's not necessarily enough that you can just take the off-season off and concentrate on working out in the hopes of making somebody's full roster next year. There's got to be a lot of guys who are always right on the cusp between giving it up altogether and starting their post-football career, and trying to give it just one more year to see if something will happen. Somebody could probably write an interesting book about two or three of those guys -- there's a lot of material about the very back end of the football business to explore.
 
#20
#20
Vercingetorix said:
That's interesting. $64,000 is not exactly a pittance, but it's not necessarily enough that you can just take the off-season off and concentrate on working out in the hopes of making somebody's full roster next year. There's got to be a lot of guys who are always right on the cusp between giving it up altogether and starting their post-football career, and trying to give it just one more year to see if something will happen. Somebody could probably write an interesting book about two or three of those guys -- there's a lot of material about the very back end of the football business to explore.
Click to expand...

a single male could easily live off 64,000 dollars and concentrate on making a roster the next year. heck, i would love to make 64k this year.
 
#21
#21
Vercingetorix said:
That's interesting. $64,000 is not exactly a pittance, but it's not necessarily enough that you can just take the off-season off and concentrate on working out in the hopes of making somebody's full roster next year. There's got to be a lot of guys who are always right on the cusp between giving it up altogether and starting their post-football career, and trying to give it just one more year to see if something will happen. Somebody could probably write an interesting book about two or three of those guys -- there's a lot of material about the very back end of the football business to explore.
Click to expand...

cmon, a single man, straight out of college, should be able to take the off-season off and concentrate on working out when he's being payed 64,000. that's my salary now and i have two children and more bills than a guy that age would have. no reason for giving up at all.
 
#22
#22
Wonder if he'll complain about not being the starter and Chrissy will react by saying he'll never play for the Bucs :birgits_giggle:
 
#24
#24
emainvol said:
a single male could easily live off 64,000 dollars and concentrate on making a roster the next year. heck, i would love to make 64k this year.
Click to expand...

Let me rephrase that. I didn't mean that $64k isn't enough to live on. Obviously it is. But it's not exactly money you can count on; there's a reason why it's on a "per week" basis. Guys get added to and dropped from practice squad rosters all the time, you don't know whether you'll be there next year, etc. I doubt many practice-squad guys can sit here in May and say with confidence, "I know I'm going to make $64,000 this fall playing the whole season on an NFL practice squad, so I don't need to be worried about what I'm going to live on." Those marginal guys have some choices to make.
 
New posts
You must log in or register to reply here.
Advertisement



Back
Top