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Old 07-25-2011, 05:41 PM   #545
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Originally Posted by Sainters7 View Post
Where do you see that bit about 22.03? Is that a dollar amount?

I just did some searching, I found some article mentioning that Newton would make roughly $35M over 5 years. To me that's still way too high($7M/yr), but the fact that its quite literally been cut in half from last year is at least promising.
It is right in the pdf linked above.

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As a quarterback, the 1st pick in the 2011
Draft may earn $22.03M over four years,
plus an option year salary of $14.3M
(assuming a 5% growth rate)...
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