The latest draft pick signing is 9th rounder Brian Eichhorn who signed for a meager $6200 over bonus slot value. Doesn't seem like much but the guy was the 417th ranked player in the draft by BA and we drafted him at #283. Teams like who they like. I get that. But when you draft a guy higher than where his talent slots you anticipate he will sign below slot. It is common in the draft for teams to do that at the end of the first 10 rounds. It gives them extra money to sign their top picks or to throw at late round flyers.
Look, while Eichhorn's bonus was only a laughable amount over slot it was still over slot. So far we have signed 4 guys that we know of to over slot bonuses and only 1 guy to an under slot bonus. By my calculation we have only $67,900 total left to go over slot. And this is not from our draft pool but from our draft pool PLUS the 5% overage that we can use (with penalty) before we lose our first round pick next year.
Our draft director is setting us up to maybe sign only one of our top 3 draft picks, 2 at the best. Unless all these guys sign for slot or Palacios and Sandlin signed for a lot under slot, we are looking at being screwed in this draft by not signing all the players in the first 10 rounds.
Hey, if you like a guy you should be willing to pay to sign him. However, the guys that they are signing to over slot bonuses mostly don't deserve those over slot dollars.
Hankins is the only guy who deserved an over slot bonus. If they want to give Delgado some over slot money that is up to them. But they should have saved money with Eichhorn, Broom and Royalty and NOT given over slot bonuses to questionable prospects in rounds after 10.
I am telling you that this is serious. I hope this guy knows what he is doing but from everything we have seen, it doesn't appear that he does. I hope I am wrong.
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