sorry if already posted...this was from early January
https://lionswire.usatoday.com/2019...and-rb-kerwynn-williams-to-futures-contracts/
The Detroit Lions have announced that they have signed punter/kicker Ryan Santoso and running back/kick returner Kerwynn Williams to futures contracts.
Santoso made some noise in Lions training camp with a gigantic leg and the ability to both punt and place kick. In the preseason, Santoso averaged 40.8 yards per punt, but has shown the ability for greater success averaging 43.0 yards per punt as a senior at Minnesota.
He will have some work to do to beat out Sam Martin — who averaged 44.7-yards per punt last year but has a career average of 46.1 yards per punt — but Martin is in the final year of his contract extension and has a cap hit of $3,000,000 in 2019 according to OverTheCap.com.
from: https://www.cincyjungle.com/2018/1/18/16905758/nfl-free-agency-2018-what-are-futures-contracts
Futures contracts are teams claiming the rights to players for the following season. They act just like normal contracts, but they do not count against the team until the following season officially begins. Usually league minimum (
This means if a team signed futures contracts at the end of the 2017 regular season, then those contracts wouldn’t count against the 2017 cap or the active 53-man roster. Instead they count against the 2018 cap and 90-man roster.
These contracts can only be offered at the end of the Regular season, and even teams in the playoffs are required to offer futures contracts at this time as well.
Who is eligible?
Anyone who wasn’t on a roster at the end of Week 17 is eligible for this type of contract. That means unrestricted free agents who weren’t signed during the season, but more commonly, practice squad players. That is where these contracts really come into play. They are mostly teams re-signing their practice squad players or even poaching other team’s practice squad guys.
Now, it is more common that a team will try and steal another team’s practice squad player with a futures contract rather than during the season. During the season, if a team signs a practice squad player, they would have to add that player to the 53-man active roster. However, with futures contracts, that player is only added to the 90-man roster for next year’s offseason
https://lionswire.usatoday.com/2019...and-rb-kerwynn-williams-to-futures-contracts/
The Detroit Lions have announced that they have signed punter/kicker Ryan Santoso and running back/kick returner Kerwynn Williams to futures contracts.
Santoso made some noise in Lions training camp with a gigantic leg and the ability to both punt and place kick. In the preseason, Santoso averaged 40.8 yards per punt, but has shown the ability for greater success averaging 43.0 yards per punt as a senior at Minnesota.
He will have some work to do to beat out Sam Martin — who averaged 44.7-yards per punt last year but has a career average of 46.1 yards per punt — but Martin is in the final year of his contract extension and has a cap hit of $3,000,000 in 2019 according to OverTheCap.com.
from: https://www.cincyjungle.com/2018/1/18/16905758/nfl-free-agency-2018-what-are-futures-contracts
Futures contracts are teams claiming the rights to players for the following season. They act just like normal contracts, but they do not count against the team until the following season officially begins. Usually league minimum (
This means if a team signed futures contracts at the end of the 2017 regular season, then those contracts wouldn’t count against the 2017 cap or the active 53-man roster. Instead they count against the 2018 cap and 90-man roster.
These contracts can only be offered at the end of the Regular season, and even teams in the playoffs are required to offer futures contracts at this time as well.
Who is eligible?
Anyone who wasn’t on a roster at the end of Week 17 is eligible for this type of contract. That means unrestricted free agents who weren’t signed during the season, but more commonly, practice squad players. That is where these contracts really come into play. They are mostly teams re-signing their practice squad players or even poaching other team’s practice squad guys.
Now, it is more common that a team will try and steal another team’s practice squad player with a futures contract rather than during the season. During the season, if a team signs a practice squad player, they would have to add that player to the 53-man active roster. However, with futures contracts, that player is only added to the 90-man roster for next year’s offseason