Typical Redskins move in RGIII contract hold-up

Griff's contract is fully guaranteed - all four years. We hold an option for the fifth year.

Every player taken in the top ten has the same deal - with no offsets. The only two who don't are Tannehill and Blackmon - unsigned of course. Both should hold out until they are treated fairly as per their slot and the players chosen around them.

Elephant said:

So it would guarantee they get all 4 years of their contract from the team that drafted them?

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Its guaranteed either way. The total would be offset by another team if he they cut him and he signs elsewhere. If he is cut, and nobody signs him and he is done with football, the Dolphins would still have to pay him all the money.

Elephant said:

So it would guarantee they get all 4 years of their contract from the team that drafted them?

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The offset just says that if you get cut and picked up by another team that team would pick up the remainder of the guaranteed money.

griffin has a deal for 4 years for 21 million, lets say the last 5 million is for the 4th year
(i'm making these numbers up)

the redskins cut him in year 3. the redskins still owe him the 5 million for the 4th year, because it is guaranteed, even if he never plays football.

however, with an offset, if griffin were picked up by the raiders then the first 5 million of the deal would actually go to the redskins (to offset the guaranteed money they paid griffen, even though he didn't play) and any remaining money on the contract would then go to griffin.

the idea is to keep the player from double dipping. without the offset language griffen would get 5 million for the 4th year despite not playing the 4th year for the redskins, and be able to sign with the raiders and be paid an additional X million for that year - thus being paid by two different teams in the same year to play for only one team.