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The good needs for the Arizona Cardinals? Their contract extension with receiver Larry Fitzgerald has created roughly $8.8 million in 2008 cap room, according to John Clayton of ESPN.com.
The bad news? His cap number for 2008 is still $7.6 million.
In all, Fitzgerald has $30 million in guaranteed payments over four years, which equates to an average amount of cap space of $7.5 million per season, just for the guaranteed money. There’s another $10 million in non-guaranteed money, and Fitzgerald is likely to earn every penny, barring a career-limiting injury or an unexpected plunge in performance.
And in four years or less he’ll get another crack at a new contract. At the ripe old age of 27.
March 11th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
That is a lot of money for a guy who is very good but not elite. Wide receivers have been getting crazy money this year. More than most are worth. No way Fitzgerald is worth $10 million a year.
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March 11th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Dennis Green drafted him when he was coach of the Cardinals. Green had a long standing tight relationship with Fitzgeralds family going back to Larry Fitzgeralds childhood. Dennis Green set the kid up real good when he drafted him and put him under contract…….real good.
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