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I'll be very surprised if he makes the 53-man roster. He'll either get cut, or moved to the practice squad. I went to see a Jets pre-season game last year, before the roster deadline. Teams can keep 90 players until then and it looked like every one one of them was suited up.
I know next to nothing about the sport.
Do practice squad fodder usually get 3 year deals?
Is it a sign they think longer term they may be able to do something with him or are the contracts about as significant as a football managers over here?
talking of NFL contracts
Mahomes ( his teammate ) is on a 10 year deal with $450 Mill, $63 Mill signing bonus, and I guess importanlty $141 million in guarantees for injury ( though he does take very good care of himself, he training program is mental, his trainer put him in a type of cage and manipulates his body to strange angles and shapes so if he gets hit on the field he has less chance of injury