The Washington Football Team signed safety Bobby McCain earlier this month to a one-year deal. Now, details of his contract have been revealed via Matthew Paras of The Washington Times.
McCain will get just under $1 million as a base salary. A total of $450,000 is locked in guarantees. More importantly, his deal carries a $1.46 million salary cap hit. That’s a bargain for a starting-caliber safety.
McCain spent six seasons with the Miami Dolphins before he was released after the NFL Draft this month. A fifth-round pick in 2015, McCain had signed a four-year $27 million extension in 2018 with Miami.
After starting out as a nickel corner, McCain transitioned to safety in 2019. He also emerged as a team captain. But, the Dolphins moved into a new direction, cutting ties with the veteran. The Dolphins will $1.48 million dead cap hit by releasing him. Ironically, close to the cap hit Washington is taking on signing him.
“Business is business. Me being in my seventh year in the league, I understand it,” McCain said per Ethan Cadeaux of NBC Sports Washington. “I appreciate the opportunity from Miami. There’s no beef there. They drafted me, they extended me. I appreciate my opportunity from them, but now it’s a new chapter, a new beginning. I’m just trying to be the best player here for the Washington Football Team and just go ball out.”
Where he slots in Washington remains to be seen. The team has an influx of safeties. McCain joins Landon Collins, second-year stud Kamren Curl, Jeremy Reaves and Deshazor Everett.
Collins, who is in the third year of a $84 million, six-year deal, is returning from a torn Achilles he suffered last year. Outside of Collins no other safety on the roster has more than the 55 career starts McCain had in Miami.
However, Curl stood out as a seventh-round rookie in 2020 as a slot cornerback and strong safety in place of the injured Collins.
