What did we pay Rice?

[Sharkonabicycle]

Can anyone find this? Usually contract details are out the same day but I haven't heard anything on what we paid rice $ wise. Realize it's a one year deal but jeesh. TELL ME ALREADY!

 

[Podunkparte]

All I heard was it was over vet minimum, but I wouldn't expect much more and I'm sure there are plenty of incentives included.

 

[dredinis21]

I thought I read 1 yr/1.05 mil, just over the vet minimum...but I can't recall where.

 

[FirebreathingMonkey]

Q: Particularly when there is a relatively low-profile or low-cost signing in free agency (like Sidney Rice's one-year deal with the Seahawks this week), the contract details are very slow to come out. It seems reporters would be pining to get this information out to the public, but it seems to take days and days. Is this slow feed of contract specifics due more to journalistic lethargy, or is there some type of NFL-mandated precaution not to release this information too soon?
Miles in Seattle

A: The accurate number comes out the day after it's submitted to the NFL. Teams have to report their signings to the league offices by 4 p.m. ET each day, and a copy of the contract is sent to the players' association the next morning. Individual agents might leak out the number upon agreement, and that's why sometimes you get an immediate number. Rice's contract went out Friday afternoon. Because it was Good Friday, the contract details won't get out officially until Monday. From the beginning, we said it was probably a one-year deal at a little over $900,000.

From John cayton.

 

[Sharkonabicycle]

Just saw it, with options $1.4M, that's solid. He said the Jets offered more, but it'd have to be a decent amount more considering New York is much less economically practical than Seattle.

 

[RegentDenali]

https://twitter.com/bcondotta/statuses/458312770316800000

 

[dude82]

https://twitter.com/bcondotta/statuses/458312770316800000

I think it was a fairly easy choice myself, given what we've heard. It sounds like he only had two real offers to choose from and with the mess that is New York's QB situation, it probably wasn't hard to pick coming back here, even if it was for less money than he could have gotten there.

 

[Podunkparte]

Jets.............Seahawks
.....¯\_(ツ)_/¯


Not a tough decision there, honestly

 

[Sharkonabicycle]

IMO he owes Seattle another cheap year lol. Rice kind of robbed us the time he was here :P