Inside the Amon-Ra St. Brown deal

Amon-Ra St. Brown was the seventeenth receiver drafted in 2021. He’s the second to get a profitable long-term deal.

Here are the actual particulars of the contract signed Monday by St. Brown and the Lions, per a supply with data of the phrases.

1. Signing bonus: $16.5 million.

2. 2024 base wage: $1.366 million, totally assured.

3. 2025 choice bonus: $8.5 million, totally assured.

4. 2025 base wage: $8.3 million, totally assured.

5. 2025 offseason roster bonus: $100,000.

6. 2025 per-game roster bonus: $510,000, complete.

7. 2026 base wage: $27.5 million, assured for harm at signing and totally assured in 2025.

8. 2026 offseason roster bonus: $100,000.

9. 2026 per-game roster bonus: $510,000, complete.

10. 2027 base wage: $23.37 million, $14.834 million of which is assured at signing, $7.417 million of which turns into totally assured in 2026 with the different $7.417 million turning into totally assured in 2027.

11. 2027 offseason roster bonus: $100,000.

12. 2027 per-game roster bonus: $510,000, complete.

13. 2028 base wage: $35.4 million.

14. 2028 offseason roster bonus: $100,000.

15. 2028 per-game roster bonus: $510,000, complete.

The deal has $35.276 million totally assured at signing. The apply assure is $62.776 million, since the Lions can keep away from the 2026 base wage assure solely by reducing him after 2024. The harm ensures are $77.612 million.

The four-year extension has a new-money common of $30.0025 million. However, the compensation package deal in the closing yr — $36.01 million — pushes it to that degree. Through three years, the extension is price $28 million per yr.

From signing, the deal has an annual worth of $24.675 million. Removing the puffed-up closing yr, the common worth of the five-year deal from signing is $21.841 million.

Like so many different contracts given to receivers, the particulars paint a far completely different image than the preliminary stories. St. Brown’s deal isn’t any completely different.

He’s technically the highest-paid receiver in new-money APY. But with $63.386 million in money over the first three years, Colts receiver Michael Pittman has a greater deal at three years, $70 million after which the franchise tag or free company or a brand new long-term deal.

It’s nonetheless an ideal contract. But it’s not the finest deal any receiver has ever accomplished.

Even if it had been, it’s only a matter of time earlier than Justin Jefferson and Ja’Marr Chase push the bar greater. Possibly considerably greater.