Sam Bradford Gets Bigger Contract Than Tom Brady After 3 Super Bowls
Published July 30, 2010 | 
Sam Bradford just agreed to a ridiculous contract that makes Jamarcus Russell look like a bargain. Bradford agreed to a 6 year, 78 million dollar deal, with 50 million guaranteed. 50 MILLION!!!
How ridiculous is this contract for a player who has been continuously injured in college and didn’t even play for his team much this season? Well, Tom Brady, coming off his third Super Bowl victory in February 2005, signed a 6-year, 66 million dollar contract similar to the extensions Vick and Manning received around the same time.
This made Brady one of the top 10 highest paid players in the game. He also restructured his contract a few years later to save the patriots money to sign Randy Moss and others, so he didn’t even see that much.
Bradford is getting 13 million more base, and can make up to 86 million total. That 86 million is very close to what Philip Rivers just got, and he’s a top 5 QB in the league, and was at the time, too. It is 12 million more than Aaron Rodgers got after his first year of starting in 2008.
The NFL has gotten out of control. The #1 pick is a curse money wise, and there absolutely no way Bradford can live up to that contract short of a 14-2 season and a Super Bowl NEXT YEAR.
These kinds of things make me want a lockout next summer. If the players really think rookies are this valuable, I can almost guarantee there isn’t going to be a new CBA deal done.
