Draft Pick signings?

[Keith]

Originally Posted by Keith

I hope Manfull is asking about signing bonuses. She's like 0-for-5 right now.

WTG, Meggie! The print edition of the Chronicle this morning had signing bonuses for two of the picks. Okam signed for $178,000, and Molden received a signing bonus "of more than $750,000."

Ehhhh, so she had info on maybe one and a half of them. Baby steps, people.

I'm not too concerned, as most of you can probably tell already. I seem to get this info one way or another. For now, I'll work on updating the cap page this morning using guesstimates.

Molden, as a 79th pick, ought to have a signing bonus in the neighborhood of Jacoby Jones', who was the 73rd pick a year ago. Jones received $777,111.

Okam, as the 151st pick, has a bonus close to Brandon Harrison, #144 last year. Harrison received $182,125.

So, then reasonable estimates might be:
$753,000 for Antwaun Molden. Last year's 79th overall pick, Mike Walker, signed for $732,000.
$667,000 for Steve Slaton. Last year's 89th overall pick, Aaron Rouse, signed for $649,500.
$448,400 for Xavier Adibi. Ryne Robinson signed for $438,305 last year.
$178,000 for Okam is 2.3% higher than the $174,000 Jeff Rowe received last year.
$141,175 for Dominique Barber. Last year's comparable was $138,000.
$56,265 for Alex Brink. Zac Diles received $56,915 last year as the 218th pick.

As I mentioned on the site's front page, Duane Brown will likely sign a 5-year deal with guarantees in the neighborhood of $6.3 million. The YOY increase for first round rookies is greater than the others, so nailing the estimate is a bit more challenging. Anthony Spencer signed for $6mm in guarantees last year, so Brown will sign for somewhere in the range of $6.2mm and $6.3mm, representing around a 3-4% increase.

We'll see how close I get.

Originally Posted by kravix

HEHE Keith, I will be your dedicated beat guy if the team will agree to give me free access to all the events as a member of the media for ITB.com :P

The Texans are far more likely to grant media access to a fifth grade newspaper than they are to ItB.com.