Restricted Free Agent Tenders

[ATippett56]

Minimum amounts for restricted free agent tenders are as follows:

Right of First Refusal/Original Round: $1.26 million
Second Round: $1.927 million
First Round: $2.742 million

There is no "First- and Third-Round" tender in the new collective bargaining agreement.

Mac's Football Blog: 2012 NFL Free Agency Overview

 

[Lamanai]

Mac's Football Blog: 2012 NFL Free Agency Overview

It will be interesting to see which tender is extended to Hoyer. Most likely a 2nd rounder, but not outside the realm of possibility that it is a 1st.

 

[patsinthesnow]

...I don't want to spend 1.9million for Hoyer in 2012....

 

[MoLewisrocks]

It doesn't matter what you want. Bill will tender him both for his potential roster value as a backup the team has confidence in and as a potential trading chip in the event they become comfortable with Mallett or locate another developmental candidate in the draft. They aren't going to know a heck of a lot more about Mallett than they knew heading into this season until they get to camp and into the pre season. Mallett was a practice player of the week once all season, the first week we faced Sanchez... Hoyer in addition to his backup duties was a practice squad player of the week on multiple occasions and they had him warming when Brady got sacked in the Super Bowl. Even with Tom nursing a shoulder injury for most of the second half of the season Mallett wasn't active once.

It's a given they will tender Hoyer, just a matter of which tender and the low tender makes no sense because even as a flyer on a potential backup there would be multiple teams interested in him for no compensation.

 

[goheels22002]

...I don't want to spend 1.9million for Hoyer in 2012....

Are you Bob Kraft?

 

[eom]

...I don't want to spend 1.9million for Hoyer in 2012....

Lucky for you, you won't have to

 

[Patriot Missile]

...I don't want to spend 1.9million for Hoyer in 2012....

Let's go out and spend 2.1 million for the kicker then? Oh wait, we already are.

 

[Gronkandez]

...I don't want to spend 1.9million for Hoyer in 2012....

I bet you the Texans and Colts think differently.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

They aren't going to know a heck of a lot more about Mallett than they knew heading into this season until they get to camp and into the pre season.

Only in the sense of how he plays against a "live" defense.

The Pats, though, know orders of magnitude more about him than any of us posters here do.

 

[reflexblue]

...I don't want to spend 1.9million for Hoyer in 2012....

Thats not very much money for a back up QB.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Thats not very much money for a back up QB.

Except, of course, that it'd be about as much as the Pats have spent on backup QBs in 2009, 2010, and 2011 combined.

 

[RobertWeathers]

$1.9m for Hoyer is not bad at all. What's that .8% of the projected 2012 cap?

 

[ctpatsfan77]

$1.9m for Hoyer is not bad at all. What's that .8% of the projected 2012 cap?

Closer to 1.8%.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Closer to 1.8%.

Yep. Mistyped. Tnks.

 

[patsinthesnow]

Sorry guys.

 

[goheels22002]

Thats not very much money for a back up QB.

You are right about that. The NY Jets are going to pay Mark Sanchez $14.253 million in 2012, which is very much money for a bakup QB.

 

[Smokeeye123]

I like what I see out of Hoyer...While I think Mallett has more of a chance to be Brady's successor, he has proved a worthy backup to Brady.