Jake Plummer never collected a penny from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but they’re about to collect $3.5 million from him.
Stephen Holder of the St. Petersburg Times reports that the team and Plummer, who retired shortly after the Bucs acquired him in a trade with the Broncos, have reached a settlement in their longstanding grievance.
The terms of the settlement are that Plummer will pay the Bucs half of the $7 million in bonus money that the team said it was entitled to collect. As a result, a scheduled grievance hearing has been canceled.
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