Rams sign Robbins to 3-year, $12 million deal
by Ryan Van Bibber on Mar 8, 2010 1:45 PM CST
in 2010 St. Louis Rams offseason
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PrintThe St. Louis Rams have officially signed DT Fred Robbins to a three-year contract that could pay him as much as $12 million, according to NFL Network's Adam Schefter.
Expensive or not? It's hard to say. I'll be anxious to see the terms of the deal the Broncos signed with DT Justin Bannan, though that's a five-year contract for a 31-year-old slated to be a NT in a 3-4 defense. Not a straight comparison.
Robbins will be playing in a rotation, so it's entirely possible the Rams can get some use out of him for a season or two. At 33, it's entirely possible that he will not be with the Rams for the third year of his contract., thus the "as much as" descriptor in the contract news.
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I had Robbins
pegged as a FA pickup for us this offseason. I think he will be very useful for us one way or another. He doesn’t take anything off the table and he lights a little bit of a fire under all the other DTs competing for a job. Depending on how you look at it, and I’m not on one side or the other, he could be a mentor to Suh. Even Carriker could benefit from Fred. Who knows…
He doesn't take anything off the table...
…except $12 million. He could be a good addition, but depending how those numbers work, it’s about $4 million per year?
I’m a little confused how a rotation DT is worth $4 million, but Atogwe isn’t worth $7 million.
I’m glad to have him, but I’m still scratching my head a bit so far early in this free agency period.
Might be 3Mil as contracts generally go up as the years go
I think it makes sense, especially because Spags knows him very well and he can probably step right on and contribute with no learning curve at all.
What if his 3 yr contract is 3.2, 4.0, and 4.8…..he might not even get to the 4.8 year.
Atogwe is testing the market, so if no one offers him 7 million then no, he’s not worth 7 milion. Remember, they don’t just pay them in increments of who’s best and by how much, it about what the market will bear at the time of the contract.
The $12 million included incentives,
and we don’t yet know how much of the 12 is base and how much incentives. He could well have a contract with at $2 million base and lots of incentives for number of plays, sacks, tackles for loss, etc. We’ll know more once the details are released, but he isn’t getting a $4 million base this year for sure.
Sigh...
Why do NFL coaches, at least Rams one, sign all the possible free agents from their old team? Never the ones that are actually good, but the ones that were so-so, but now are over the hill (and overpriced).
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