"Per reliable OverTheCap.com, Dean is now being paid $4.25 million for the 2025 season via a new agreement signed in 2025. No longer does he have a deal for 2026, so Dean would be a free agent after this season. FOX Sports NFL reporter Greg Auman wrote on X that he can confirm the information.
This represents nearly an $8 million pay cut for Dean in 2025."
He is part of so many bad plays yesterday, from negating a sack with a lazy face mask to dropping an INT to giving up 1st downs and more. BUT, how motivated is a guy who took such a big pay cut to keep his job? Maybe because free agency now looms?
He gets a bit of a salary, but added to that is $750K per game roster bonus. Next year was not guaranteed anyway and there's no way he was going to get $13 mil. He would have been cut anyway. I suppose this way the Bucs can't string him along through the offseason. He's free to shop himself as soon as the season is over, he doesn't have to wait until the league year starts.
Another win for Licht. Dean is playing for his job one game at a time at 750 a pop. I'd say that's an incentive if there ever was one.
ever time he gets burned badly he feigns injury and misses a game or two. Once both our rookie CBs are playing and up to speed he instantly slips to 4-5 on the depth chart competing with Vildor..Good move on Licht's part