Lions Trying To Find A Way To Sign Johnson
Wide receiver Calvin Johnson's cap number for 2012 will be in excess of $21 million, which is why the Lions' are eager to work an extension. They won't put the franchise tag on him, either. His number for 2013 would be $25.2 million if they did and that's prohibitive. The Lions are going to have to make Johnson the highest paid non-quarterback in the league. It is possible the Lions will use the contract the Cardinals gave to Larry Fitzgerald in 2009 as a model. They signed him to a four-year deal worth $40 million, with $30 million guaranteed. That contract made Fitzgerald the highest paid receiver at the time and allowed him one more negotiation - which he parlayed into a seven-year extension averaging $16 million per year.
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