8 overall pick Isaiah Simmons: A freakishly athletic linebacker from Clemson who has never lived up to the high impact exceptions of the Arizona Cardinals. The Falcons promptly restructured his contract and negated his fifth-year option. 3 overall pick Jeff Okudah: A highly touted cornerback from Ohio State who was traded this offseason by the Detroit Lions to the Atlanta Falcons for a fifth-round draft pick. 2 overall pick Chase Young: A remarkably talented pass rusher from Ohio State who has seen his career with the Washington Commanders derailed by a knee injury. Some notable members of that 2020 class who failed to secure their fifth-year options: The 2020 class clearly illustrates that NFL teams made a litany of errors with their picks - or at the very least, put themselves onto a fence when it came to the belief that a player was worth an elevated fifth-year salary. If a franchise is happy with the choice it made, it’s either picking up the option or signing a player to an extension before the option kicks in. Well, the fifth-year option decision serves as the most accurate read on how teams are self-assessing their first-round picks. What does that mean about the 2020 class? (Photo by Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Dubious list includes Chase Young and Henry Ruggs III Even reaching back to the introduction of fifth-year options (when the salaries were initially guaranteed only for injury), the only class that came close to the futility of 2020 was the 2016 draft, which had 15 players fail to lock down their fifth-year option.Ĭommanders defensive end Chase Young hasn't matched his strong first year in the league, when he won defensive Rookie of the Year honors with 7.5 sacks. The 2019 class had 13 players go without their option picked up. The 2018 class saw only 10 players experience a refusal of their fifth-year option. That’s a staggering drop from the previous two draft classes in 20, which - thanks to a change in the collective bargaining agreement - were the first two fifth-year options fully guaranteed (and not simply guaranteed for injury). That means that after three seasons of on-field performance, 62.5% of the 2020 first round failed to have their rookie contracts automatically extended with one additional (and lucrative) fully guaranteed year of pay. Vietnam’s planned debut never happened.That same 2020 pandemic class that leaned so heavily on game tape has set a benchmark for first-round futility with a record-setting 20 players failing to have their fifth-year options picked up by their NFL teams. The highlight races of Monaco and Singapore were cancelled entirely along with all races in Asia and the Americas. They finished fourth ultimately, seven points behind McLaren.ĬROWDS - The pandemic meant most races were staged without crowds. RACING POINT - Despite Perez’s stirring win, the Canadian-owned team missed chances and were docked 15 points for breaking the rules with a car closely modelled on last year’s Mercedes. HAAS - Another tough year for the U.S.-owned team, who finished ninth and cleared out both their drivers Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean. He won two races but the points gap to Hamilton was a chasm. VALTTERI BOTTAS - Being Hamilton’s team mate is a thankless task but Bottas ended up further away than ever. George Russell, although a Williams driver, ranks as a winner for his exceptional performance at Mercedes as stand-in for COVID-hit Hamilton. The team was sold in August and the founding family departed. WILLIAMS - The former champions failed to score for the first time since the 1970s.
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