Lions’ Calvin Johnson could be done in Detroit after this season
Because of his cap number and his health, Detroit Lions’ wide receivers Calvin Johnson could be done in Detroit following the season.
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Although he has been known as the best wide receiver in football for some time, the 2014 season is not going well for Detroit Lions’ wide receiver Calvin Johnson.
The oft-injured Calvin Johnson is currently battling an ankle injury and has just 22 receptions for 348 yards and two touchdowns. Clearly, those aren’t bad numbers but more is expected from Megatron.
Because of his cap number and his health, Mike Florio believes Calvin Johnson could be done in Detroit following the season.
"Crazy as it seems, Johnson carries a cap number of $20.558 million into the next league year. While a restructuring that converts, for example, $10 million of his $12.5 million salary into a signing bonus could cut the cap number down to $12.558 million, the maneuver would drive his 2016 cap number of $24 million up to $26 million.At some point, Johnson may have to take less money in order to stick around. If he doesn’t want to do that, the Lions may have to part ways with him."
The ankle injury isn’t Calvin Johnson’s first injury problem and won’t be his last. Calvin Johnson is seemingly always banged up (To be fair, he’s missed just six games in his career and has never played in less than 14 games in a season).
Injuries, of course, aren’t the big problem. The big problem is that cap hit. Florio points to the Lions attempts to trade up for Sammy Watkins and Mike Evans and ultimately drafting tight end Eric Ebron as proof they may be readying to lose Calvin Johnson.
In his eight-year career, Calvin Johnson has 594 receptions for 9,676 yards and 68 touchdowns.
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