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He was scheduled to be a restricted free agent. If they view him as 50/50 to make the roster, they could've just given him the right of first refusal tender, which is about the same money ($3.5M/1 year), but without the $2M guarantee.
Wake me when we sign AP...
Will do.
But now my man Tommy will have a full training camp to develop & learn the system and receivers better
What do you mean by "it frees up some cap money"? Do you mean it frees up some in lieu of the RFA tender, which they hadn't placed on him yet?
I still wish we’d have signed Mason Rudolph last year, instead of Dobbs. Basically same money, and Rudolph and Drake are BFFs.
FWIW, Rudolph signed five days before Dobbs did, so it's at least possible that Vrabel et al. did try to sign him, but couldn't.
As a career trajectory DeVito in my humble opinion has alot more upside than Rudolph.. Rudolph is basically a career back up in the league. DeVito with the coaching he's getting here will likely end up being a starting QB at some point in his young NFL career somewhere in the league.
FWIW he's about the same age as Mac Jones (28 when the season starts), and Rudolph will be 31.
That's my hope, but he's very young, so I am guessing he will also follow the parts of Hoyer's career where he got signed by a few bad teams a couple times to be their starter after looking good in spot starts/preseason games for the Patriots, only to be just average (since he is still ultimately just a backup) and ultimately come back to NE again.
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