Rodgers cap number is 9.659440 million this year, not 14 million.
The difference you ask?
Rodgers already got his signing bonus, the bulk of it has been paid, cap-wise, all of it salary-wise, the salaries are escalating rapidly, there is NO CAP next year, his prsb for this year is only 1.052 mil. We have 22 mil. AT LEAST left to sign the rest of our players this year if we so choose, Jay Cutler will be next and is more akin to what Rodger's value is ..it will be HUGE, btw.
Rodgers has to earn the bulk of everything he makes, and you can't count and never have been able to.
That is the difference.
Edit--- HA, found the rest of the numbers---
What if the cap is re-instated, one might ask?
Cap for '10 6.5 mil.
Cap for '11 7.75 mil
Cap for '12 8.5 mil
Cap for '13 9.75 mil
Cap for '14 11 mil
Not counting the 5 million a year that Dhazer adds to every contract for every year for every Packer player Ted signs. :thumbleft:
Dhaze wrote:
And Rodgers contract now makes him, remarkably, the fourth highest paid quarterback in the game, behind only Peyton Manning, Carson Palmer and Ben Roethlisberger.
NFLN just flashed up the top seven to ten QB's pay for 2009. (It was hard to count them all) Cassel was 2nd at 15 milliion for this year, behind Schaub at 17.5 million.
Rodger's wasn't even on the list.