Deandre Hopkins is negotiating his own deal

[BritCard]

PFT confirmed this morning that Nuk parted ways with CAA in June and is repping himself with the help of advisors paid by the hour. As Laremy Tunsil did.

For me this is smart. Agents have their place but for a top tier guy like Nuk you know what you are worth and what the market allows and giving away a chunk in agents fees makes little sense.

 

[MadCardDisease]

I don't like it. Need to let your agent handle all of the dirty work and play bad cop while you concentrate on football.

 

[Shane]

I don't like it. Need to let your agent handle all of the dirty work and play bad cop while you concentrate on football.

ehhh

 

[Chris_Sanders]

That is a sign he has a ton of trust in the organization

 

[BritCard]

That is a sign he has a ton of trust in the organization

Or he knows he has them over a barrel

 

[Jetstream Green]

Agents can be extremely useful but I can see a player frankly not trusting them since they could care less about the overall football objective in their trek to getting a percentage, and then like anything, you have good agents and then bad ones along with smart players and well complete idiots. If one feels a certain player has the intellect and savvy to bring a political platform to the sport... then why not being their own agent

 

[Jasper]

If he knows what he's doing he can save millions on agent fees. Maybe even 10-20 milllion.

 

[Chopper0080]

I don't like it. Need to let your agent handle all of the dirty work and play bad cop while you concentrate on football.

Anyone who has been a part of contract negotiations knows that it can produce very critical comments that can be tough to hear. I understand there is a bunch of money that gets paid to agents, but tend to prefer athletes go that route. Not my money however, and I get the appeal of handling it yourself. Hopefully both parties settle on a deal that works for both.

 

[AZ Native]

We traded for him and he had 3 years remaining (under 15 mil a year I believe) on a 5 year contract with no guaranteed money. Houston would not tear up his contract so they traded him to us. Does anyone have an idea of what we will end up paying him?

 

[MadCardDisease]

We traded for him and he had 3 years remaining (under 15 mil a year I believe) on a 5 year contract with no guaranteed money. Houston would not tear up his contract so they traded him to us. Does anyone have an idea of what we will end up paying him?

At least average $20M per year when it is all said and done.

 

[Harry]

He is helped by the fact he is not a speed guy at 28, I’d guess a 4-5 year deal averaging 20+ mil a year. Likely 3 years guaranteed.

 

[AZ Native]

That sounds good for both sides. (no agent)

 

[BritCard]

He considers himself #1.

Julio is on 22m.

That's what he want.

20m or 22m makes little difference.

 

[Zeem_Freeze]

That sounds good for both sides. (no agent)

yup, cards will get a discount on Dhop... maybe not 50% of agents fees but some...

we can pay Deandre 20m and he's still pocketing more than julio at 22m

 

[Reddog]

20m or 22m makes little difference.

$2M difference
Or $20M over a five year deal does make a difference.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Those of you slamming agents have zero idea what minutiae go into these contracts and negotiations and how badly these players can screw themselves.

 

[oaken1]

Agent fees is only like 3% these days ain’t it?
And only on guaranteed money


I guess this way when you finally hire an agent he will work really hard to get you tv commercials and stuff since that’s the only way he is gonna make any money

 

[BritCard]

$2M difference
Or $20M over a five year deal does make a difference.

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