ESPN touches on Cam's 5th-year salary and contract extensions for draft picks under the new CBA

[KSpan]

With Cam's fifth-year option (apparently worth around $15mm) as one example, the piece comments on why using the fifth-year could be beneficial in this market and may be slow-playing signing recent draft picks to extensions.

http://m.espn.go.com/nfl/story?storyId=10776622

Top-10 draft picks can be optioned at the transition number at their position. Players taken at spots 11 through 32 are tendered at the average salary of the third through 25th players at their position.

[Alcatraz49ers]

Cam will play under that $15mil 5th year option next year. He will get a contract extension next spring but he'll still play out the 5th year option. His extension will kick in for 2016.

It'll get played out that the team is squeezing him dry and hanging him out but he's gonna be paid handsomely starting next year and won't even play out a contract year.

[csx]

If they use the option and then extend him before the season it will be under the extension, not the original. New contracts go into play in the current year, not after the original.