fifth-year option Archives

2020 First-Round Picks on Next Year’s Fifth-Year Option Bubble

June 15, 2022 3 min read

2020 First-Round Picks on Next Year’s Fifth-Year Option Bubble

While the 2020 Draft may seem like it was yesterday, NFL teams are required to make decisions at the end of the 2022 season on whether to exercise (or not) the fifth-year option on the contract of their first-round picks. Here are some players who are not certainties to have their fifth-year option exercised, and […]

Why the Fifth-Year Option is More and More Rare

Mike TannenbaumPeter Engler

May 9, 2022 3 min read

Why the Fifth-Year Option is More and More Rare

The early results on the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft are in, and it’s the latest note in an intriguing trend. With the deadline for teams to exercise the fifth-year option on first-round picks passing, we now have information on which players were deemed worthy for an additional fully guaranteed year. In all, […]

Jared Hammond

August 11, 2021 3 min read

The Fifth-Year Option Can Be Friend or Foe

The 2011 CBA drastically changed the way NFL rookie contracts are done. Drafted players went from having the ability to negotiate their contracts with teams to having little to no say on the length or total contract amount – all drafted players are signed to four-year contracts. They could, however, negotiate guarantees, language and payment […]

Jack Wolov

May 6, 2021 4 min read

Banner and Giddings Discuss the Fifth-Year Option Decisions

Due to the uncertainty of the cap that was caused by the pandemic, as well as the clause that now fully guarantees fifth-year options upon execution, teams had to be particularly careful with how they approached the 2018 first-round draft class this offseason. The deadline to exercise the fifth-year option was May 3. There were […]