The popular opinion around here is he got 8 years 80 million dollars. That is NOT true. Ill explain.
http://www.profootballtalk.com/rumormill.htm
"A league source tells us that, as a practical matter, it's a six-year deal worth $7.25 million per year."
http://49ers.pressdemocrat.com/default.asp?item=514187
I don't claim to know how the 49ers and agent Todd France structured Clements' whopping eight-year, $80 million contract. (Those exact numbers won't be available until they're included in league paperwork.) But it doesn't have to count more than $5 million against this year's salary cap.
The prorated signing bonus money can be spread out over six years - not the full eight years of his deal - because of the length of the current CBA. So assuming he received a $22 million signing bonus (and that's a big assumption), the bonus portion would count $3.67 million each year for the next six years. He could be making the minimum salary this year of $595,000. So that means that Clements could conceivably count only $4.26 million against the cap in 2007.
But it's also possible the 49ers wanted to put more money on this year's cap because they have so much space to eat up (and that would leave them in better shape in future years). Therefore, they could have bumped up the first-year salary and/or converted some of that $22 million guaranteed into a roster bonus that counts immediately against this year's cap.
He will earn 7.25 per for the first 6 years. That is 43.5 million dollars. The last 2 years he will see INSANE amounts of money that will pay him 36.5 million. But, the bonus will be paid in full by then. At least, 90 percent of it. So what this means..
This is a 6 year, 43.5 million dollar contract. He will NEVER see year 7 and 8.
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