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Early in camp John Johnson Jersey , after Odell Beckham surrendered most of his leverage by not holding out, his agent leaked that the Giants had offered Beckham less per year than the $16 million per year Sammy Watkins received from the Chiefs. For many, the immediate reaction was, “How is Sammy Watkins relevant to Odell Beckham?”

The answer was that Beckham’s camp was evaluating the team’s offer not in terms of “new money” (where Steelers receiver Antonio Brown currently has the best deal, at $17 million annually) but by looking at total value. Under that metric, Watkins had set the highest bar at $16 million per year.

Ultimately, Beckham beat both metrics. In new money, it’s $18 million per year. In total value, it’s $16.4 million per year. But although reasonable minds can (and will) differ on this Chaz Green Jersey , total value really is the more accurate way to analyze a contract. Rarely if ever do contract extensions represent actual “extensions” to a contract; typically, the old contract gets ripped up and the new contract takes its place.

That’s what happened with Beckham. He has a new six-year, $98.459 million deal, not a one-year, $8.459 million deal with a five-year, $90 million package that begins in 2019.

So, apples to apples, Beckham gets $400,000 more per year on average than Watkins. But Watkins has the better deal.

Here’s why: Beckham has signed for six years Andrew Luck Jersey , and Watkins is under contract for only three. So after Beckham has reportedly earned $60 million and enters the back nine (three) of his commitment, Watkins will have made $48 million and will be taking another trip to the open market.

Yes, Beckham will have made $60 million over those three years. But he’ll be committed to only $38 million over the final three years, and unless he suddenly becomes willing to hold out (which he wasn’t willing to do this year), the Giants won’t surrender their ability to enjoy three lower-cost seasons after enduring three high-rent campaigns that mesh with the three relatively cheap years under running back Saquon Barkley‘s rookie contract.

And so when Beckham sees Watkins, who has more than 120 fewer catches, nearly 1,400 fewer yards, 13 fewer touchdowns Tramaine Brock Jersey , and three fewer Pro Bowl appearances in the same number of seasons, get another big contract on the open market at the age of 28 while Beckham remains tied to the Giants through his 31st birthday at an average at that point of $12.6 million per year, Beckham will have only himself to blame for neither insisting on a shorter-term deal nor buying insurance against a career-ending injury nor opting to go year-to-year until hitting the open market — and the jackpot that would go along with it — in 2021, when he’ll be 28.

If J.J. Watt and Jadeveon Clowney stay healthy this season, the Texans defense should return to being a dominant unit. Houston dropped from No. 1 overall in total defense in 2016 to 20th last year.

Watt has played only eight games combined the past two seasons, making 1.5 sacks.

Watt’s 2017 season ended with a tibial plateau fracture in his left leg during the fifth game. Early in the offseason program, Texans coach Bill O’Brien was cautious when discussing Watt’s rehab.

O’Brien, though, has seen enough from Watt to feel good about where the defensive end is now.

“I feel good about J.J. because J.J. feels good about J.J. Seth DeValve Jersey ,” O’Brien said, via John McClain of the Houston Chronicle. “He’s in a good place. He’s been here every day. He’s very positive about where he is from a rehab standpoint.

“He’s committed to the cause of what we’re trying to do.”

Clowney played all 16 games for the first time in his career in 2017 but underwent arthroscopic knee surgery in the offseason. He missed the Pro Bowl and didn’t participate in team drills during the offseason program.

Clowney, though, expects to be healthy for the start of training camp, and the Texans expect to have him on the field despite the lack of contract talks.

Clowney, the first overall pick in 2014, will make $12.3 million this year under the fifth-year option.

“He and I have had a number of conversations,” O’Brien said. “He’s guaranteed me he’ll be ready to go on July 25.”

Then the question becomes can Watt and Clowney stay on the field?

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