Kaepernick seeking $18 million per year, $38 million guaranteed

[ThomasTomasz]

Thanks to the new collective bargaining agreed to before the 2011 season, players can extend or alter their contracts after their third year in the league. Quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who led the 49ers to back-to-back NFC Championship games and a Super Bowl appearance, just finished his third season. He's set to make a base salary of $973,766 in 2014 but is looking for substantially more than that.

Kaepernick and the 49ers have begun discussions about a new deal and according to the Boston Globe's Ben Volin, the former second-round pick is looking for something along the lines of Jay Cutler's recent contract that pays him $18.1 million per season with $38 million guaranteed.

For some perspective, in 2014, $18 million per season would, on average, rank tied for seventh among all quarterbacks after Aaron Rodgers ($22 million), Matt Ryan ($20.7 million), Joe Flacco ($20.1 million), Drew Brees ($20 million), Peyton Manning ($19.2 million) and Cutler (Tony Romo's contract averages $18 million per season).

"While no one expects the 49ers to let Kaepernick go anywhere," Volin wrote over the weekend, "we hear that if the 49ers don't get in Kaepernick's range, the quarterback would be willing to play the 2014 season at his base salary and postpone negotiations until next offseason instead of signing a below-market deal."

And before you suggest Kaepernick would be foolish to do that, it worked for Flacco, who played out his rookie deal, won a Super Bowl, then got a huge payday (see above).

Back in January, days before the 49ers lost to the Seahawks in the NFC Championship game, CBS Sports NFL Insider Jason La Canfora wrote that some executives believed "Even a hypothetical two-year deal that paid Kaepernick the 2013 franchise tag for quarterbacks ($16.5 million per year) -- $33M for two years -- likely wouldn't fly." But that was only if the 49ers advanced to the Super Bowl.

"Should the 49ers lose," La Canfora added, "the 49ers might retain a sliver of leverage, given he is still under contract for 2014, plus the fact the 49ers conceivably could franchise him in 2015 and 2016 (though that is a rarity for quarterbacks)."

Kaepernick completed 58.4 percent of his passes last season, which is worst among the top 10 quarterbacks in Football Outsiders' QB efficiency metric. And even when you factor in dropped passes, Keapernick's accuracy percentage (as measured by ProFootballFocus) is 69.3, ahead of only EJ Manuel, Joe Flacco, Geno Smith and Eli Manning.

When Kaepernick faces pressure, his completion percentage drops to 43.6 and his accuracy percentage drops to 55.1, last among all NFL starters.

This doesn't mean Kap's not worth $18 million, at least relative to the other quarterbacks getting that kind of money. The real question is if the 49ers will be the team to pay him.

“Both sides in a contract negotiation, both sides are using analytics and data to help support -- it's confirmation bias to the max, everybody's trying to find evidence that supports whatever theory or contract demand they want to make,” 49ers president Paraag Marathe said recently, via ESPN.com's Mike Rodak. “They can cut it and slice it in a lot of ways that help you.”

One thing everyone agrees on: sustained success starts with a franchise quarterback.

"That's the single biggest differentiator," Marathe said. "If you can get by with average talent, but if you have a superior quarterback, you'll see the best quarterbacks -- the Hall of Fame quarterbacks -- it doesn't matter what kind of talent they have, even if they have really bad talent around them, they're going to finish 7-9 [or] 8-8. They're never going to go 3-13."

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on...-kaepernick-looking-for-18-million-per-season

 

[Hasselbeck]

18 million?

:lol4:

 

[JimLeavy59]

:jack:

 

[jms493]

18 million?

:lol4:

 

[MVPete]

 

[JeremyHight]

Flacco officially made being a good QB on a team with a solid defense worth 18 million a year. Sad, but those are the breaks.

 

[NAHSTE]

AND YOU CAN TELL EVERYBODY

 

[CCBrink]

He deserves it :dd:

 

[Maynard]

the only person who thinks he deserves this money is Rams29jackson

 

[buckeye]

Elite!!!!!! Psssshhhhh

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[ram29jackson]

Flacco officially made being a good QB on a team with a solid defense worth 18 million a year. Sad, but those are the breaks.

Flacco actually has a ring though,,just sayin'.

He earned his cash compared to Kaep

Most combined regular and postseason wins in first three years as a quarterback: 36 (tied with Dan Marino)
Only quarterback to start and win a playoff game in each of his first five seasons
Most road playoff wins by a quarterback: 6
Most touchdowns in a postseason: 11 (tied with Joe Montana and Kurt Warner)
Most touchdowns without an interception in a postseason: 11 (tied with Joe Montana)
First quarterback to have a passer rating over 100 in all four games of a single postseason.

 

[Maynard]

trent dilfer think you made a great arguement

 

[Hasselbeck]

Flacco officially made being a good QB on a team with a solid defense worth 18 million a year. Sad, but those are the breaks.

lol at that Ravens defense being "solid"

If you want to argue that Flacco got paid for 4 playoff games and one colossal f-up by Rahim Moore, then sure.. I can buy that .. but the Ravens won the Super Bowl because of Flacco's hot streak, not the defense.

 

[MrBill]

$18M?!?!

:wtf2:

 

[ThomasTomasz]

lol at that Ravens defense being "solid"

If you want to argue that Flacco got paid for 4 playoff games and one colossal f-up by Rahim Moore, then sure.. I can buy that .. but the Ravens won the Super Bowl because of Flacco's hot streak, not the defense.

Bringing up Rahim Moore to Ravens fans always results in lulz. More than 3/4's have no idea who he is, and the ones that do (and actually know a bit about football) have no response to it.

 

[Aso]

Updating a previous item, CBS' Jason La Canfora says Colin Kaepernick won't settle for anything less than $20M per season annually in a new contract.

Earlier reports had Kaepernick seeking anywhere from $17-$19M in average annual salary. La Canfora says Kaep "believes he is a top-five quarterback" and will be perfectly happy to "bet on himself" by playing out the final year of his rookie deal for $973,766. It's the right move. Kaepernick is just 26 years old, is 21-9 as a starter (including playoffs) and franchise quarterbacks get what they want these days. The Niners will pony up.

- Rotoworld


:smugruss:

Fuckin Right.

 

[Hasselbeck]

20M a year?

:homieslol:

:lol:

:lol4:

:jonesy:

 

[Hasselbeck]

Bringing up Rahim Moore to Ravens fans always results in lulz. More than 3/4's have no idea who he is, and the ones that do (and actually know a bit about football) have no response to it.

No one in the media really brings it up either.. I mean yeah Flacco played out of his mind in the post-season.. but if Moore doesn't F that up completely.. the Broncos likely win and who knows what Flacco's salary is.

And I actually like Joe Flacco, but that contract is as ridiculous as paying Colin Kaepernick 18-20M would be.

Also.. LOL at Kaep thinking he's a Top 5 QB. He's not even the best QB in the NFC West. Could even argue he's not in the Top 10 right now.

 

[MrBill]

I would love to see Kaep's performance on a team without all of the talent surrounding him on the 49ers roster and coaching staff. He certainly deserves a huge increase in salary based on the results he has delivered to date but he might need to tested for drugs if he truly believes he is a top 5 QB in the league.

 

[ram29jackson]

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