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Scout's Eye with Matt Williamson: Signing Fields won't be easy

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Hockey, Steelers, Penguins, Football, Nfl, Matt Williamson, Nhl, Pittsburgh, Mlb, Baseball, Dejan Kovacevic, Dk Pittsburgh Sports, Pittsburgh Penguin, Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Steelers, Sports, Pirates

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

What would a Justin Fields contract look like? It is much more complicated than you might think.

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, hello. I am Matt Williamson. How's everyone doing? Good. I hope you're doing as well as I am, no complaints. And we got that little bit of a column before the storm here with pre-combine. Things get real crazy to combine this time next week. I will be there.

0:23.1

Again, I'll give all kinds of stuff I'm hearing, all kinds of people we talk to. But this is not

0:30.5

my final answer on Fields v. Wilson. And I've said this a thousand times that I could be either

0:37.2

one of their attorneys and

0:38.5

make a pretty good case to Arthur Smith, Omar Khan, Mike Tomlin, Art Rooney, it's for my guy over

0:46.4

the other. But I'll be honest, as I record this on February 18th, I am leaning towards fields, but I don't feel super strong about it.

0:57.3

But I wanted to address something with the field situation. And it might not be something

1:01.9

you guys are aware of, is his contract could be really hairy. Why do you say that?

1:11.3

You know, well, the league has a void in quarterback contracts,

1:17.9

and I'll tell you more about it here in a minute.

1:20.5

When I first started thinking about this a month or so ago

1:23.2

or two months ago or three months ago, whatever,

1:25.8

I thought they would offer field something like

1:29.3

a two-year, $25 million deal, big chunk of it guaranteed, probably some incentives in there.

1:37.5

If you get to a Pro Bowl, if you get the team to the playoffs, if you play X amount of snaps,

1:42.3

blah, blah, blah, you could have some more bonuses.

1:47.3

But what I didn't realize is that's probably a little low, to be honest with you.

1:54.6

I mean, I think his agent will, I know his agent will want more and has a good case for more money.

2:03.7

And the fact is those contracts don't exist in the NFL. And a big way the contracts work, like in a lot of walks of life, is

2:10.7

show me a comp. Show me a guy a lot like Justin Fields in his career and show me his contract and we'll go from there.

2:19.7

I'll add 10% on it on inflation or whatever, you know.

2:24.6

But there really aren't any comps.

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