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Jermon Bushrod Contract
Dollars and sense: Bears LT Bushrod's contract
 Tackle Jermon Bushrod waits to be introduced to the media Wednesday. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune / March 13, 2013) |
By Brad Biggs, Tribune reporter 11:42 a.m. CDT, March 14, 2013
The six-year contract for Chicago Bears left tackle Jermon Bushrod has
a total value of $35.965 million and $22.465 million guaranteed vs. injury through the first three years of the deal
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Bushrod received an $11 million signing bonus and his 2013 base salary
of $715,000 is fully guaranteed. His salary cap charge for 2013 is $3.015 million.
Bushrod’s 2014 base salary is guaranteed vs. injury now and becomes fully guaranteed on Day 3 of the 2014 league year. Similarly, his 2015 base salary of $5.75 million is guaranteed for injury at this point and becomes fully guaranteed on Day 3 of the 2015 league year.
Here is a complete look at the contract:
2013 $11 million signing bonus, $715,000 base salary, $100,000 workout
bonus
Total: $11.815 million
Cap figure: $3.015 million
2014 $5 million base salary, $100,000 workout bonus
Total: $5.1 million
Cap figure: $7.3 million
2015 $5.75 million base salary, $100,000
Total: $5.85 million
Cap figure: $8.05 million
2016 $6.4 million base salary, $100,000 workout bonus
Total: $6.5 million
Cap figure: $8.7 million
2017 $6.6 million base salary, $100,000 workout bonus
Total: $6.7 million
Cap figure: $8.9 million
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Thanks for posting these contract breakdowns.
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Originally Posted by
SERE Bear 
Thanks for posting these contract breakdowns.
SERE. No problem. To know and understand how these deals are able to get done is pretty much the key to some of our discussions about signing UFAs. Someone asked the question that with only around $7 mil of cap space available when FA began how did we manage two big first day signings so I posted these contract details as answer.
We had to guaranteed a lot of Bushrod's money to get it done in as cap friendly a manner for 2013 as possible. $22.465 mil/62.5%of the total is being guaranteed against injury over years 1-3 so provided he's stays healthy he's assured of averaging $7.49 mil per year for his next three years. That's about 50% more per year than he was getting and puts him right in there with the deal Beatty got.
His cap costs mushroom to around $9 mil in years 4 and 5 when he'll be about 32 years old but by that time he could be released without any dead cap space. It's a fair deal for both sides if he can play better and more consistently than Webb did and given the market we weren't gonna get a LT for less and maybe not a top tier RT either.
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Don't think he will see the last couple of years of the contract. Affordable this year though, and that is important.
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Originally Posted by
BearStuff Don't think he will see the last couple of years of the contract. Affordable this year though, and that is important.
Yep, three years is enough time to do what needs to be done which is draft a LT and let Kromer and Myers develop him like Bushrod was. Or maybe Webb does reach his storied "potential" and can switch back to LT eventually. Who knows.
But it does buy us time to make other arrangements and takes care of a major problem now. Getting Bennett takes care of the second biggest offensive issue as well. Emery is a pretty fair shot with a rifle I'd say. He finds his targets and he hits them.
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He got slightly more then what an average rt cherelus got so to me this has win written all over it
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Anyone want to hear some good Bushrod info go to Waddle and Silvy Wed and listen to Triplett from the New Orleans Times Picuyane. He says Bushrod is not a top 5 OT but he is in the next group and that he earned his Pro Bowls by holding up in a pass heavy offense with almost no help.
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Originally Posted by
WindyCity Anyone want to hear some good Bushrod info go to Waddle and Silvy Wed and listen to Triplett from the New Orleans Times Picuyane. He says Bushrod is not a top 5 OT but he is in the next group and that he earned his Pro Bowls by holding up in a pass heavy offense with almost no help.
Does this mean we can go back to lining up our TE on the right side of the formation again and actually throw to him? 
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