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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers Trade For Darrelle Revis, Give Him A Contract With $0 In Guaranteed Money

Apr 22, 2013, 02:42 IST

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have landed star cornerback Darrelle Revis in a trade with the New York Jets.

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The Jets get a 1st-round pick this year (13th overall) and a third or fourth-round pick next year, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.

That's a decent haul. They weren't going to get much more for a guy who's coming off a major knee injury and is relatively old in NFL years.

The most interesting part of the deal is the contract he signed with Tampa.

According to Schefter, Tampa gave Revis a six-year, $96 million contract. But none of that — not a single penny — is guaranteed. So it's a pay-as-you-go situation. The Bucs can cut Revis at any time without owning him anything.

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It's unusual for players of Revis' caliber to get zero guaranteed dollars. But that's the only way he was getting $16 million per year in a long-term deal considering his injury history.

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