Auden Tate gets paid, signs four-year deal with Cincinnati Bengals

Former FSU wide receiver Auden Tate is now ready to get to work in the NFL.

Some FSU fans thought Auden Tate made a mistake forgoing his senior year in Tallahassee to pursue his dream of playing in the NFL.

I wrote he made the right decision after he was drafted in the seventh round of the 2018 NFL Draft.

It was announced Sunday that Tate had signed a four-year deal with the Cincinnati Bengals and those figures can be seen below.

However, Tate has wasted no time showing what he can do in practice thus far:

Mini-Camp Highlight

According the

Overthecap.com

the terms of Tate’s four-year deal are below via the NFL Rookie Wage Scale:

Thoughts

As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, it was the right move for Tate for a few reasons. There was no guarantee he was going to replicate or better his 2017 numbers in a predominately power run game in Willie Taggart’s new offense.

He played hurt most of 2017, who’s to say that wouldn’t happen again?

Also, he wasn’t going to get noticeably faster at his size and age, so the likelihood of getting drafted much higher than the seventh round a year later was fairly small.

Tate turned 21 years old in February, so the earlier can get his NFL clock started the quicker he can get to that second contract. The numbers can change drastically if he’s productive during his rookie contract.

All you have to do is look at former FSU running back Devonta Freeman. He was going to make 1.8 million dollars in the final year of his rookie deal in 2018 before signing a five-year extension that saw his salary jump to 8.25 million per year and the highest paid running back in the NFL.

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If I were a betting man, I’d always bet on myself opposed to letting someone else control things. By the looks of it, Tate is off to a good start thus far.