Well, it looks like my estimates of $18-20 mill for Kappy were right on. Our QB for the future is getting a 6 year, $126 millon extension from the 49ers. With a whopping $61 mill guaranteed.
UPDATE: The details are the guaranteed money is paid out on a rolling basis and has some pretty hard incentives to meet. 80% of the offensive plays, 1st team pro bowler, super bowl victory and such. And the guaranteed money is only in case of injury. Plus, Kappy needs to take out his own $20 mill insurance policy.
This puts to rest the thought of waiting out his final season and franchising him. Which I thought would have been a fool’s errand, but the bed is made, and the team is his for the foreseeable future. Or 2020. Whichever comes first. Waiting on this season to pass would have sealed his departure as someone else would have backed the truck or just gieven him a blank check to fill in the zeros.
Whether he can buck the trend of these mega deals never living up to their lofty asprations remains to be seen, but as we know now, Kappy is a hard working guy who at least appears to be driven to reach his and the team’s goals. We can talk about how the offense will progress at a later time, but for now, Kappy is among the highest paid players in the NFL.
Forty Niners Forever 
Current QB pay scale from ESPN
Matt Ryan $22.9M
Aaron Rodgers $22.7M
Joe Flacco $20.7M
Drew Brees $20.3M
Peyton Manning $19.3M
Tony Romo $18.0M
Jay Cutler $18.0M
Matthew Stafford $17.7M
Ben Roethlisberger $17.6M
Eli Manning $17.0M
Philip Rivers $16.8M
Colin Kaepernick $14.7M
Kap is 12th on the list IF he misses no games and meets the de-escalator clause threshold in his contract. If he misses 8 games over 3 years it will cost him $1 mil. If he misses All-Pro 3 years and the team isn’t in the Superbowl he losses $6 mil.
Many of those other QB’s above him on the list have already made a shit ton of money, Roethlisberger for instance has received over $70 mil in cash so far in his career.
These terms are unprecedented in scale. The Niner FO is a powerhouse at doing these contracts which is probably why Crabs and Iupati will go elsewhere because dollars to donuts another team will pay them more than the Niners.
Crabs is a good not great WR but Iupati, when healthy, is a great LG in the mold of a Larry Allen.
I don’t think losing Crabs will hurt too much now the team has other good contributers. Not so sure that losing Iupati will be so easy.
VD is one of the best TE in the league no doubt. Nobody currently on roster is close to him although I guess we all hope McD surprises us this year. VD is getting up there though and his petulant demands for a new deal starting last season from reports is way premature. If his production stays at a high level this season I would think the team will do another deal, possibly a 3 year with the third year being a team option year.
The reports of Frank Gores demise have been coming for 2 years so far and in each of those years he has topped 1,000 yards. Hard for the team to dismiss that kind of production and the protection he provides for the anointed one. His contract ends this year and I have to believe that is it for him. He gets his 10 years, probably his 10,000 yds and an outside shot at the Hall, but the young studs have to push the old man out and so far no one has been able to.
New thread is up . . .