Draft Pick signings?

[Mike]

Originally Posted by Keith

merging our draft pick signing threads.

btw, I hope Manfull is asking about signing bonuses. She's like 0-for-5 right now. Must I continue to do the dirty work? :P

Keith, you might as well do the dirty work, you are better than those folks at the Chronicle and you don't get paid. Let's start our own Houston Sports daily paper, like the defunct "National."

We can put Dickie Justice and Jabba the Hut McClain out of work.

We'll can take Anna-Meghan on the staff.

[Keith]

Originally Posted by Mike

Let's start our own Houston Sports daily paper, like the defunct "National."

As The National (and sadly, Houston Chronicle readers) can surely attest, printed sports journalism is a dead man walking in this country, assuming the point is to combine quality journalism with profitability. Plus, the Texans micro-manage access to their employees/players to an amazing degree.

[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

[KJ3]

haha...

oh yea? i'll be your beat guy with free access stuff AND i'll bring you 6 dozen cookies of your personal taste preference at the 1st of every month!

seriously though...is sports journalism hard or something? it seems like the hardest part is getting to where you need to be. asking questions is easy, writing observations on sports is easy, having your own talk show has to be like found money.

[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.

[papabear]

Originally Posted by Keith

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

I've got a nephew....if I can get him to start a newspaper and get him credentialed then I would have to chauffeur him around to all the media events.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by papabear

I've got a nephew....if I can get him to start a newspaper and get him credentialed then I would have to chauffeur him around to all the media events.

Or we can get 'Gilbert' on staff. Anyway.

[Keith]

Originally Posted by Keith

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.

Seems I got pretty close. McClain sez:

Brown, the first-round pick who is ticketed to start at left tackle, signed a $9.1 million contract that could pay him as much as $11.5 million if he reaches his incentives. It includes $6.2 million in guaranteed money.

http://blogs.chron.com/nfl/2008/07/b...as_texans.html

Someone else told me I was $1000 or so off on Molden, but I haven't confirmed it yet.

[NBT]

Good job, as usual, Keith.