Free agency

[JackCarsten]

I have a question relating to vet contracts. I see gray boxes and reference to the fact that we can only sign initial vet contracts to 4 years.
Is this true or can I sign any vet to a 7 year contract?
Its confusing.

Way I understood it. We have the chart see below. If we want to sign a QB for 5 years contract needs to be more then 110 salary points since QB is tier 1 and 5 year deal for tier 1 is 110 salary points. Look at manual or CDCOX may be able to give better explanation.
Contracts cost the following number of salary points:

Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Tier 4 Tier 5
7 year 200 125 100 85 50
6 year 152 95 76 65 38
5 year 110 69 55 47 28
4 year 74 46 37 31 19
3 year 44 28 22 19 11
2 year 20 13 10 9 5
1 year 0 0 0 0 0
Tier 1 = QB; Tier 2 = WR, HB, LT, CB, DE4, OLB; Tier 3 = TE, DE3, ILB, MLB, SLB, WLB, DT; Tier 4 = C, G, FB, FS, SS; Tier 5 = K, P

[Sayhay66]

Thanks Jack.
I understand the costs and years and tiers.
What I dont understand is the difference between the comment that original veterans can be signed for 4 years....
Or can I sign for 7?

Is it the vets that were placed on my team....are limited to 4....and the vets we drafted can be for 7?

Just trying to understand.

[Cmcm2297]

Thanks Jack.
I understand the costs and years and tiers.
What I dont understand is the difference between the comment that original veterans can be signed for 4 years....
Or can I sign for 7?

Is it the vets that were placed on my team....are limited to 4....and the vets we drafted can be for 7?

Just trying to understand.

You can sign for 7. After there contract is up you can give them 5-7 years or let them go to FA

[Sayhay66]

Thanks!
Appreciate the help.

I dont understand the purpose of the gray boxes....but whatever.