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2017: 1/5
Brian Hoyer: 2 years, $12 million / No
Pierre Garçon: 5 years, $47.5 million / No
Kyle Juszczyk: 4 years, $21 million / Yes
Malcolm Smith: 5 years, $26.5 million / No
Marquise Goodwin 2 years, $6 million. / No
2018: (1/4)
Richard Sherman: 3 years, $27.5 million / Yes
Weston Richburg: 5 years, $47.5 million/ No
Jerick McKinnon: 4 years, $30 million/ No
Jonathan Cooper 1 year, $4.95 million / No
2019: (1/3)
Kwon Alexander: 4 years, $54 million / No
Tevin Coleman: 2 years, $10 million/ Yes
Dee Ford: 5 years, $85 million (came via trade for second-round pick)/ No
2020: 1/2 (Inc on ARMSTEAD - Let’s see what he does with a better, healthy line in 2021)
Arik Armstead: 5 years, $85 million/ ?
Jimmie Ward: 3 years, $28.5 million/ Yes
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The immeasurable impact of @drewbrees—on football, on the @Saints, and most of all New Orleans. PLUS ...
💥 Bucs' new world: "Everyone has the same goal."
💥 How @dak and Dallas got it done.
💥 Lance's Pro Day.
💥 A ton of free agency info.
si.com/nfl/2021/
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Football Morning In America is up! In the column:💥 Drew Brees, good for football, good for NOLA
💥 Why players will make 40 cents on dollar
💥 Free agents with best chance at a pay day
💥 A Dak story you've never heard
💥 Player vaccine news + more
profootballtalk.
The Super Bowl XLIV MVP will serve as a studio analyst for Football Night in America and a game analyst for Notre Dame Football. He’ll also work on many of NBC Sports’ biggest events, including the Olympics and Super Bowl LVI, according to an NBC press release.
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Opening night of next season. That’s currently Klay Thompson‘s target date for his return from an Achilles tear. But it’s both an ambitious and floating target. Thompson tore his Achilles in November. Next season likely will begin before the year mark of his recovery.
“Could be a few weeks after (the season opener),” Thompson said. “Could be a month after. But it’s definitely going to be geared toward the very beginning of the season.”
Thompson delivered that piece of news in a free-flowing, candid 17-minute press conference with reporters before the Warriors’ Sunday afternoon game against the Jazz. It was the first time Thompson has spoken with local reporters since tearing his Achilles. He revealed plenty.
HOW DID IT HAPPEN:
Thompson’s description of how the injury happened during a pickup game in Los Angeles on the morning of the NBA Draft, a moment that rattled the franchise and continues to inhibit the Warriors’ path forward.
“Something I don’t really like to revisit much,” Thompson said. “It was very painful. It feels like someone kicks you in the back of your heel as hard as they could. It just happened on a two-dribble pull-up jump shot. A move I do 100 times a day.”
Belt has to feel great that he can run at all after what he’s endured over the last few months. His right foot feels much better after offseason heel surgery, which means he could very well improve over his stolen base total from a year ago (zero, although he has swiped 43 bags in his career). But he was also hit by a double whammy of illnesses, starting when he contracted COVID-19 in January. He only got tested because he knew he’d been exposed. He was asymptomatic when the result came back positive, but we’ve all learned over the past year that COVID-19 is a tricky virus.
“I didn’t have any symptoms at first until I reached the end of my quarantine,” Belt said. “When I was working out, I started feeling really winded, really lightheaded, really dizzy, and just lost all energy after about 10 minutes of working out. So I had to deal with that for about three weeks or four weeks. And right at the end of that three to four weeks is when I got mono. So, all that kind of came together and I got hit pretty hard.”
Mononucleosis sapped Belt of his energy to the point where he was bedridden for seven or eight days, only getting up for an hour or two each day to check in with family before hopping back under the covers.
“Then once I got over the sickness part it was pretty tough to kind of get over the weakness that my body had,” Belt said. “Just the lack of stamina, lack of energy, lack of strength. I’ve been dealing with that for the last couple of weeks. But the good news is now I feel pretty dang good. And every couple of days I’m taking huge jumps forward. And I feel like I’m pretty close to getting back to normal. So it was kind of a long ordeal and obviously wasn’t that fun, but right now I feel like I’m getting back on track.”
If all that wasn’t enough, Belt also lived through the Arctic cold front that hammered Texas in February. The Belts have a generator at home, so they invited friends over who were feeling the brunt of those frigid conditions when much of the state was without power.
“We kind of opened our house to whoever needed it,” Belt said. “I know there was a lot of people who lost power and lost heat and it was one of the coldest periods in East Texas, period. So they struggled with it. Their house was 40, 50 degrees. So they had to get into better living conditions, so fortunately we were able to open up our house for them.”
@BobMooreNV: Will 2021 be remembered as the “Buster Posey Farewell Tour”? Seems he has life's priorities right: family, then work
Eric Byrnes suggested to me on a new media project that he and Will Clark are launching that this will be Posey’s final year. I’m not sure I know Posey well enough for any absolutes here, but I disagree: I think the Giants try to bring him back for another year, maybe a year and an option, on a team-friendly deal and then ease him into the organization in whatever capacity he’d like: coach, adviser, occasional roving instructor, ambassador. And if Posey doesn’t come back on a sort of emeritus deal, I do think he’d look elsewhere, probably at a team with immediate hopes of winning. He looks rejuvenated this spring after a year off and goodness knows, he’s very competitive. I don’t think he’s lost an ounce of that fire
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