The Thirty-Five Million Dollar Question.

According to JC Cornell, Jameis Winston is targeting $35 million a year on a contract extension. We heard close to a month ago that the Bucs are working on a contract with Jameis Winston, but the details were not given to us.

Question is do the Bucs pay anywhere close to that, and if not, will someone else?

According to spotrac.com, Winston’s current market value is about 4-years $107 million, which is $26.8 on average, $30-35 million is not unreasonable for him to ask for.

Stats are for losers!” I see that being slathered all across social media, or, “Jameis Winston has never made it to the playoffs.” Since when is our football team called the “Tampa Bay Winstons”? And since when are the stats for losers? Winston’s stats over 5-years are creeping up on quite a few “Winner’s” career stats, if not already surpassing them.

Winston has been in the league for 5 years, and the Bucs as a team haven’t exactly been contenders. You can’t blame Winston entirely for the Buccaneers going 30-50 since 2015, but some of you will surely try – Just like you can’t entirely blame, Josh Freeman, Mike Glennon, and Josh McCown for the Bucs going 27-53 from 2010-2014.

The Buccaneers will keep Jameis Winston, and I truly do not believe they try to give him a transition or a franchise tag. I think he will nab 27-28 million a year for the next 4 years, either from the Bucs or someone else. As of now, no talks between the Bucs and Winston have been going on, but you better believe that the agents have been talking up a storm.