Great deal for Ramsey. The details of the new Jalen Ramsey deal are in. He has picked up significant new guarantees and reduced his cash in 2023, in order to create more cap space. Ramsey was due to make $17 million in 2023, $18.5 million in 2024, and $19.5 million in 2025. Here are the new terms, per a source with knowledge of the deal. 1. Signing bonus: $8.835 million. 2. 2023 base salary: $1.165 million, fully guaranteed. 3. 2024 offseason roster bonus: $11 million, fully guaranteed. 4. 2024 base salary: $14.5 million, fully guaranteed. 5. 2025 offseason roster bonus: $4 million. 6. 2025 base salary: $15.5 million. The contract continues to include $2.5 million escalators for 2024 and 2025. Before the trade, Ramsey had $5 million in full guarantees remaining. After the trade, he now has $35.5 million in full guarantees. Also, the Dolphins got some significant cap relief for 2023. Instead of having Ramsey could for $17 million, his new cap number is $4.11 million. That’s a reduction of $12.89 million. To make it happen, Ramsey gave up $7 million in cash this year. But he’ll get it all back in 2024. His 2025 terms are unchanged.
Jalen Ramsey met the media on Thursday for the first time since joining the Dolphins in a trade with the Rams and the cornerback was looking ahead to a chance to share the field with Xavien Howard. Ramsey’s arrival gives the Dolphins an enviable pair of cornerbacks to deploy in new coordinator Vic Fangio’s defense and it gives the Dolphins what might be their top combo since the days when Patrick Surtain and Sam Madison were in the same secondary. On Thursday, Ramsey said that he and Howard will wait to make any comparisons to that pair or anyone else until they’ve actually played some games together. “We trying to be the best man. We ain’t trying to really worry about comparing ourselves with anybody else,” Ramsey said, via Marcel Louis-Jacques of ESPN.com. “We trying to be ourselves. We’ve had some success in our individual careers up until this point. We plan to have more success now together in the same secondary as a duo . . . We just going to get after it. And then when it’s all said and done, then we can talk about — we can go over all of that and we can go over all of what people say. We’ll keep the receipts, and we’ll go back over all of that when it’s all said done, after the fact. That’s what I’ve been doing.”
I’ve had a further review of this, since I was skeptical to begin with. My skepticism was mainly fueled by the low price and thinking he was 2 or 3 years older than he really is plus thinking that many ‘splash’ signings (Byron Jones, Mike Wallace, Nkomadong Suh to name a few) end up being more sizzle than steak. It seems the rating sites don’t think his production fell very much, and it appears to have more to do with the wheels falling off the rams than lack of effort or failing health. I’m coming round to the trade.
Theres a lot of miss information on Jalen Ramsay’s game that is trying to taint the player because he gave up some plays on national tv If you look at the totality of his game the past two years, every rep, every measure, every metric. The man is in his prime and is an elite Corner. Travis on his podcast did a thorough analysis of metrics on this player where he was #1 in some very important ways that are relative to the corner position.. When I watch him last year I can see he’s playing some out of phase technique which he sometimes gets beat on and I think that’s where this silly narrative comes from. That has absolutely nothing to do with diminishing skills, Fangio just needs to coach him on when and how much can you use that technique. This should be as big as impact player to our defense as Hill was to our offense
Watch him play the star position Best all around corner in the game Is just manhandling professionals
I have a strong feeling next season we’re going to have a full compliment of 11 players that can tackle.
There's talk of Lamar Jackson to the Pats. Rodgers to the Jets. Allen in Buffalo and Tua in Miami. That's one heck of a competitive division and I think we're true contenders next year with the defense we're building. But gosh, it's not going to be easy to win the East...the Bills may end up in last place if everything shakes out.