Eric Berry: Highest Paid Safety in NFL History

by David Hooper on Jul 30, 2010 4:20 PM EDT in Tennessee Volunteer Football

The newest million-dollar smile. (Photo by Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images)

As far as I can tell, the 'official' announcement hasn't been made, but the story being told all over the wires is that Eric Berry has finalized his contract. The important numbers:

Six year contract
$34 million guaranteed
$60 million maximum

Arrowhead Pride is going chat-crazy over the news, so feel free to see how they feel about our newest favorite son.

If you break down the numbers, the maximum yields $10 mil per year on average. That's $625k per game, or over $100k per minute of clock time. Assuming he's on the field for half of that (which is a touch high), then he's basically making $200k per minute of playing time. [Edit: Math error. That's supposed to be $10k and $20k, respectively. Yeah, I can divide 600 by 60. --Hooper] Naturally, that's not accounting for practice time and all the other details he'll be involved with for the team, but that's still a boatload of money.

And none of us could be any prouder. If there's any player we felt was mature enough to handle this kind of a pay day, Berry's the one.

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Good for him

He will earn and deserve every penny too. Maybe this will enable his younger brothers to stay at Tennessee all 4 years. :-D

"I condone fun things" ~~ Cortland Finnegan

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by VolBrian on Jul 30, 2010 5:25 PM EDT reply actions

I'm disappointed not to have a WOOOO in the story.

The COEXIST bumper sticker is ridiculous. How are people supposed to get along when one side is flying planes into tall buildings or wearing sweater vests full of C4 and nails? The faiths are MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE.

by memphispete on Jul 30, 2010 6:08 PM EDT reply actions

I can't wait

to watch him play. Sunday’s will be even more exciting with him on the field.

by B00NE on Jul 30, 2010 6:31 PM EDT reply actions

/hearts/

but, you know, in a tough guy sort of way.

thanks to denial, i'm immortal

by thetennesseethumper on Jul 30, 2010 7:39 PM EDT reply actions

MATH FAIL!!

Without looking, I assumed the bad math was a Joel fail, but upon further review I was astonished to see our resident “Numbers Nerd” to lay the blame on!

$625K per game = over $10K per game minute. Not $100K per game minute. That is, unless there was a rule change shortening the game to 6 minutes instead of 60! :)

/fellow engineer nit-picker

by Aerobab on Jul 30, 2010 8:13 PM EDT reply actions

Either way

That’s a hella-ton of money per minute. Good for EB!

by Aerobab on Jul 30, 2010 8:13 PM EDT up reply actions

I already fixed that. ;-)

But yeah, that was a bit of head-hanging shame for me. Lousy decimal places…

Alternative hypothesis: that with Berry in the lineup, his greatness acts as a Lorentzian time lens that, though Berry himself plays a 60-minute game, leaves only 6 minutes of game time in the reference frame of mortals.

;-)

by David Hooper on Jul 30, 2010 9:20 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Oooo, my back! I slipped a decimal!

Alternatively, Aaaaaaah, my hand! I slipped a digit.

by memphispete on Jul 31, 2010 9:55 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Rec'd for the really awesome math puns.

Wow.

;-)

by David Hooper on Jul 31, 2010 9:57 AM EDT up reply actions

"Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football." John Heisman

by Joseph Stanley on Jul 31, 2010 6:07 PM EDT reply actions

We saw two EB Chiefs jerseys at the Smokies game last night.

Still getting used to seeing him in a 29 jersey, but I’m glad to have another NFL team to root for.

Lou Brock loves Lamp.

by birdjam on Aug 1, 2010 2:53 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

I saw

A pair of Tebow jerseys at Myrtle Beach today. I wanted to punch the wearers in the face. Parents should know it’s a liability to dress their kids up in that number 15. Poor Parenting.

Eric Berry Eats Landsharks For Breakfast.

by bobothevol on Aug 1, 2010 11:56 PM EDT up reply actions