Shepard contract details

[Leeroy Jenkins PhD]

Per a source, here are the terms for former Bucs wide receiver Russell Shepard, now with the Panthers: It's a three-year deal worth $10.5 million. It includes a $2 million signing bonus and $2.5 million guaranteed. He'll make $4 million in the first year.

[uscgamecocks]

Wow...that's basically the same contract that the Saints gave to Ted Ginn.

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/new-orleans-saints/ted-ginn-jr-4693/

Not upset that we signed Shepard.  But I certainly don't understand allocating that money to Shepard over Ginn, given that TG was the best receiver on our team the past two seasons - and he played a key role on special teams.

[E CaT PanTHer 2]

damn all these contracts are pretty lucrative. surprising coming from Dave. 

[Saca312]

He honestly has more value overall than Ginn or Brown, so I can see why.

Not that bad of a deal for a guy who has a ton of upside and versatile everywhere.

[Salisburysean98]

7 minutes ago, uscgamecocks said:

Wow...that's basically the same contract that the Saints gave to Ted Ginn.

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/new-orleans-saints/ted-ginn-jr-4693/

Not upset that we signed Shepard.  But I certainly don't understand allocating that money to Shepard over Ginn, given that TG was the best receiver on our team the past two seasons - and he played a key role on special teams.

He also dropped a lot of gimme touchdowns too 

[Reebis21]

So does this essentially mean we could cut him after this year and only owe him $500k?

[Toomers]

  He should be Joe Webb's replacement. Instead of wasting our 5th WR spot on a strictly ST player, have someone who can do both. CJ is #4. We get our #2 in draft. Tons of WR that fit what we need around #64 or even later. 

[Cuttinedge]

10 minutes ago, uscgamecocks said:

Wow...that's basically the same contract that the Saints gave to Ted Ginn.

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/new-orleans-saints/ted-ginn-jr-4693/

Not upset that we signed Shepard.  But I certainly don't understand allocating that money to Shepard over Ginn, given that TG was the best receiver on our team the past two seasons - and he played a key role on special teams.

That one comment speaks volumes of how bad our WRs were and STs.

 Ginn is a subpar receiver on any other team in the NFL and he was one of our best?

Plus his returning punts consisted of fair catches and not getting up to fair catch short punts  turning them into us losing field position. Or him actually returning one and streaking to sidelines as fast as he could.

I hope Shepard turns out to be a good one for us , ain't like There's a huge standard there 

[*FreeFua*]

14 minutes ago, Saca312 said:

He honestly has more value overall than Ginn or Brown, so I can see why.

Not that bad of a deal for a guy who has a ton of upside and versatile everywhere.

Not even close and that's coming from someone who wanted to see Ginn replaced. 

Ginn's ability to field punts (just catching the ball) sadly brought a lot of value to this team. That's not even including teams actually having to game plan for Ginn's speed on offense. I assure you there won't be a single team game planning for the great Russell Shepard on O

I really don't know how you can even think Shepard has anywhere close the value Ginn has

[LinvilleGorge]

That's a lot of damn money for a special teamer.

[Confined9991]

10 minutes ago, *FreeFua* said:

Not even close and that's coming from someone who wanted to see Ginn replaced. 

Ginn's ability to field punts (just catching the ball) sadly brought a lot of value to this team. That's not even including teams actually having to game plan for Ginn's speed on offense. I assure you there won't be a single team game planning for the great Russell Shepard on O

I really don't know how you can even think Shepard has anywhere close the value Ginn has

Ginn was an awful awful punt returner, I'd rather have Bersin doing it

[TheSpecialJuan]

3 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

That's a lot of damn money for a special teamer.

Agree.

[TheSpecialJuan]

Keep in mind, Ginn was strictly a return man before he came to Carolina. He developed into a received once he got here. I think Gman believes he can do the same with Shepard.

[La Pantera]

5 minutes ago, Confined9991 said:

Ginn was an awful awful punt returner, I'd rather have Bersin doing it

 

 

 

Um, no. Gin wasn't getting the yards, but at least he could field the damn ball.