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Don't know where you've been for the last 3.5 weeks, but Mason was already given a 5 year extension.
Report: Patriots Sign Shaq Mason To Five-Year Contract Extension
Flowers is the only one without one and they are likely to get it done, imho.
I wish there was "JFC, this genius is still missing the point somehow" rating, because you'd rack up a ton of them. See, if you actually read my post rather than frantically scrambling for the disagree button and a snippy-but-ultimately-useless retort, you might have noticed that I directly referenced his extension in my post.
The Patriots signed him to a 5 year extension. Have you ever heard of an extension? Do you know what that word means? It means that his current contract is being extended (really tricky, I know, but I'm sure you can follow along). Hence why his five year extension has him under contract for the next six seasons, through 2023. Because it's tacked on to the last year of his rookie deal, which he is currently playing out (plus pro-rated signing bonus). This is why his base salary quadruples next year, and it's also what the Patriots do with almost every home-developed FA that they extend off of a rookie contract. Not sure how you managed to be a Pats fan for this long without being aware of it. I've now directly referenced this in two posts, and you've twice plowed on ahead with your standard 'way-more-conviction-than-intelligence' response.
And the really weird thing that's kinda head-scratching to me is that if you decide that for whatever reason having pro-rated signing bonus on the cap means he shouldn't count as a guy on a rookie deal, it actually makes my overall point even more compelling: because we have only a few good players on rookie deals and he's one of them. Subtract him out and we're getting even less production from rookie contracts.
Do you understand now, or you do I need break it down into even simpler terms to spoonfeed to you?
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Shaquille Mason Contract Details, Salary Cap Charges, Bonus Money, and Contract History | Over The Cap
Report: Shaq Mason, Patriots Agree to 5-Year Contract Extension Worth Up to $50M
Patriots make Shaq Mason one of the highest-paid guards in the NFL
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