The Pirates are renewing the championship team
During the yacht trip after winning the Super Bowl, the Pirates coach Bruce Arians spoke bluntly to linebacker Lafontaine David: "You ah You will never leave here."
This also became a reality on Tuesday: According to ESPN reports, the pirates will renew their contract with David for two years. The total contract salary is 25 million U.S. dollars, of which 20 million U.S. dollars is a guarantee. A few hours before this, the pirates used the privilege label on wide receiver Chris Godwin. Coincidentally, Godwin also received Arians's "will" during the yacht trip: "You will not leave either."
This renewal also allows the Pirates to spread David's salary space to the next few seasons, and now he will only occupy 3.5 million US dollars in the 2021 season. Since being selected in the second round in 2012, David has quietly become one of the league's elite inside linebackers.
In the regular season last year, David completed 117 tackles, of which 12 caused the opponent to lose yards, 1.5 sacks, 1 steal, 6 destructive passes, 3 forced drops and 2 won ball. In the playoffs, he contributed 26 tackles and 1 sack for the team.
The New England Patriots brought back a familiar face before the start of the free agent transfer period.
According to people familiar with the matter, after several weeks of negotiations, the Patriots are expected to be traded for the Las Vegas Raiders offensive tackle Trent Brown.
As part of the deal, Brown has restructured his contract and agreed to sign a new one-year $11 million contract with the Patriots, which will allow him to become a free agent after the end of the 2021 season. Prior to this, his contract had 2 years of 29.5 million dollars left.
The Patriots and the Raiders will also exchange their picks. The Raiders will send out the 2022 seventh round picks, and the Patriots will send out the 2022 fifth round picks.
27-year-old Brown will return to the Patriots. In 2018, he joined the Patriots and played the peak of his career in the only season he played for. Now, he will hope to revive his career in the old place.
After being traded to the Patriots by the San Francisco 49ers, Brown started every game and helped the team win the Super Bowl. Such performance earned him a four-year, $66 million contract from the Raiders in the 2019 offseason.
Two other team dynamics: The Bears put a franchise label for wide receiver Allen Robinson; the Giants also put a franchise label for defensive Titan Leonard Williams.
The team began to tag the players
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