NFL Free Agents 2015: Biggest Boom-or-Bust Players Hitting Open Market

March 7, 2015   ·   Tyler Conway   ·   Jump to comments

Not all NFL free-agent deals are created equal.
Any fan with a modicum of understanding about how the league works knows this. The reported terms of contracts are never the actual terms of deals. Artificial seasons with high base salaries are baked into long-term contracts for immediate salary-cap relief, bonus types and structures can be altered at any moment, and even something as supposedly straightforward as "guaranteed money" can sometimes be anything but.
The concept of boom-or-bust contracts also doesn't mean the same thing in other leagues. The Charlotte Hornets handing Lance Stephenson a $27 million contract was a risk that's gone bust. The NFL's version of Stephenson would have been handed a deal structured in such a way to make it easy for his team to get out of the deal after a single season.
Mid-tier contracts don't mean as much. In most cases, they are one-year deals given inflated numbers to make the player and his agent look better than reality.

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