Texans Agree To Extension With Derek Stingley Jr.

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The Texans have agreed to a contract extension with All-Pro cornerback Derek Stingley Jr. to make him the highest-paid defensive back in the NFL.  Payne & Pendergast react here.

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00:00Sports Radio six ten. Houston

00:08Texans breaking news. Alright,

00:09if you missed it, previous

00:11segment came down. The news

00:14Derrick Stingley Junior becomes

00:17the highest paid defensive back

00:21in the history of the NFL by if

00:23we're going by average annual

00:25value by a pretty tidy sum. He

00:28has a three year $90 million

00:32contract. Derrick Stingley is

00:34with nearly all of it

00:35guaranteed 89 million

00:37guaranteed according to

00:39according to Adam Schefter.

00:40Here's the tweet report record

00:42deal. Texans all pro

00:43cornerback Derrick Stingley

00:44Junior has agreed to a three

00:45year $90 million extension

00:47including $89 million

00:49guaranteed a $30 million base.

00:53Value per year in L history.

00:54The cornerback market has been

00:56completely reset. So the same

00:58thing happened. To the non QB

01:02market with Miles Garrett. Uh

01:05a week ago, he's getting 40

01:07million a year and it jumped

01:09over Justin Jefferson. That's

01:11happening by even a bigger

01:12percentage in the cornerback

01:13market now. The highest paid

01:16corner before this news was JC

01:18Horn and I think Derrick

01:19Stingley Junior is is is a

01:22significant bump above JC Horn

01:25and Seth. I think that's what's

01:26reflected here is at the top of

01:27the cornerback market had

01:29those days where you got guys

01:30who are good players kind of

01:31jumping over each other like a

01:33little bit and the fact of the

01:35matter is that Derrick Stingley

01:37Junior is he's not $100,000

01:40better than better than JC

01:42Horn when healthy. He's way

01:44better than JC Horn. We're

01:46right and I think that's that's

01:48a big question and we wondered

01:49how would the health factor into

01:51this and that Derrick Stingley

01:53last year had his first fully

01:55healthy season and he was an

01:56all pro and he'd shown the

01:58potential at that level before

01:59he just hadn't been able to stay

02:01on the field. So you can see

02:02from the Texans perspective.

02:04They might be a little bit

02:05nervous about giving guy a long

02:07extension if if you you hasn't

02:10had multiple healthy seasons

02:12and this goes back to his

02:13college days as well. But it

02:15also it also is something that

02:18Casario has been doing pretty

02:20consistently starting with

02:22Laramie Tunsil and then with

02:23other guys like Nico Collins and

02:25other players when he extends

02:27he's not going to give him a

02:29four or five year extension.

02:31It's a three year that carried

02:34on the stick. It allows you to

02:36plan more in the short term and

02:38keep cap space. You know you're

02:39not kicking a bunch of spending

02:41down the road. So I like it.

02:43I'm a fan of it for NFL players

02:45who have been whining forever

02:47about not having guaranteed

02:48contracts. You can get you can

02:50get a guaranteed contract. You

02:51just got to sign a shorter term

02:53deal. Neil Hunter did it last

02:54year. Yeah. Neil Hunter's

02:55contract was almost completely

02:56guaranteed on a two year deal.

02:58Nick obviously did that deal as

03:00well. So I like it. I'm really

03:02excited for Derek Stingley. I

03:04think he's the classic kind of

03:06guy that will probably work out

03:08two extra hours today instead of

03:10to sell instead of instead of

03:12planning a trip to Egypt or

03:13something. He's probably gonna

03:15feel that much hungrier to prove

03:17that he's worth the money. So

03:18it's the right kind of guy to

03:20give an extension like this.

03:21He's he is not going to drop off

03:23and work one single bit. He

03:25probably won't. Here's Derek

03:27Stingley Jr. On the Pivot

03:29podcast earlier this offseason

03:31actually Super Bowl week in

03:34Louisiana where Stingley is from

03:36on him wanting to be a Texan for

03:38the rest of his career. How

03:40important is it for you to get a

03:42deal done and remain a Houston

03:44Texan? Well, I mean, I want to

03:46stay in Houston for I mean, the

03:49rest of my career really the

03:50deal, you know, the deal going

03:51to happen when it happen. You

03:52know, we still got to take care

03:53of business. I still got to work

03:54I still got to be there. Nico

03:55Collins when he was doing all

03:57that last year every day. I'm in

03:59there working out. I see him

04:00working out. So like, you know,

04:02that's the standard that we got

04:03over there with the Texans. So

04:05that's what I'm trying to keep

04:06on doing. All right. So that was

04:08that was Stingley, you know, he

04:09wants to be here. It's man. It's

04:13it back and look at the journey

04:15to arrive at this contract where

04:18the night that Stingley was

04:19picked third overall that that

04:21was I don't want to say it was

04:22out of nowhere. But that was

04:24like Stingley was like if it was

04:26a horse race to see who the

04:27Texans were taking with that

04:28third pick in the draft back in

04:302022 Stingley was like the horse

04:32coming up on the outside at the

04:34very end. Like it was it was

04:36mildly surprising. I think that

04:38Stingley ended up being the guy

04:39only because to your point, he

04:41had been injured for the last

04:44two years. He was at LSU, you

04:46know until this past season. He

04:48hadn't played a full season of

04:49good football since his freshman

04:51year in college. And I guess

04:53that might be something that is

04:54you as I say those things, maybe

04:56maybe makes this contract a

04:57little scary. I like to think

04:58that maybe, you know, he figured

05:00some things out his body state

05:01and you know, he played all 17

05:02games last year. It's not for a

05:04lack of work that he had health

05:06issues. He's in the building

05:07there at NRG Stadium, according

05:09to Nick and others every single

05:11day working out. He is a junkie

05:13when it comes to football and

05:15the things that go into being

05:16good at football. But I remember

05:18the night that he was drafted.

05:20And it was a little surprising.

05:22It was Stingley, but I was cool

05:24with it. And I remember Nick in

05:26the war room that night and

05:27there's video of this out there.

05:29Him talking to Cal and Hannah

05:31and explaining the selection to

05:33them. And the one thing Nick

05:35said is, this is a guy that just

05:37doesn't grow on trees. You know,

05:39he's unique. Well, I think that

05:41when you watch Stingley play

05:42compared to a guy like sauce

05:43Gardner, who's a very, he's got

05:45a very grabby brand of football

05:47that sometimes it's hard to

05:49describe, but it's a brand that

05:51sometimes comes and goes with

05:53its effect. Depending on how

05:55they used to officiate. With

05:57Stingley, he's a pure cover

05:59cornerback. The way he operates,

06:01how comfortable he is, just

06:03moving in 19 different

06:05directions out of his back

06:07pedal. He does a lot of things

06:09really, really well. And then

06:11his ball tracking is what really

06:13puts him over the top. His

06:15ability to make plays on the

06:17receiver himself. A lot of

06:19times, a lot of times,

06:20especially if he's got, if he's

06:22got a receiver figured out, he's

06:24running the receivers route

06:25better than the receiver himself

06:27is. It's all those things where

06:29you just look at it. And when

06:30you watch him play, you say,

06:32that's a true professional

06:33cornerback. And it's just a

06:34matter of keeping him healthy.

06:36The big thing is in his ability

06:40to stay healthy. I think that

06:43all of those things that

06:44sometimes you hear younger

06:45players learning about how to

06:46recover, how to handle the week,

06:48just how much should you exert

06:50yourself versus overdoing it,

06:51all of that. Hopefully he's

06:53learned a lot of that over the

06:54first couple seasons and that it

06:56wasn't just dumb luck that he

06:57was healthy this year. But on

07:00the professionalism side of it

07:02and the work side of it, he is

07:04kind of like it will be with

07:05Will Anderson, I think. He's

07:07everything you want in terms of

07:09a guy who just lives, eats, and

07:11breathes football. And the

07:13money's going to be really nice

07:14for him. But you've never gotten

07:16the sense that that's what's

07:17driving him, that more than

07:19anything, I think he just wants

07:20to be a great cornerback.

07:21I agree. I wholeheartedly agree.

07:23And I will go back to the

07:26detail I pointed out a few

07:28minutes ago, that last week,

07:33where he became clearly the

07:37highest paid non-quarterback in

07:39the sport at $40 million a year,

07:41immediately articles coming out,

07:43an article in The Athletic

07:44coming out about maybe how he's

07:46been lacking some

07:47professionalism over the last

07:48couple years, late to meetings,

07:50not going to mandatory stuff,

07:52stuff like that. I listened in

07:53on Cleveland this morning, and

07:55Miles Garrett got asked about

07:57that at his press conference

07:58last Friday about this

07:59extension, and he next

08:00questioned the guy.

08:01Really?

08:02Yes. And he next questioned the

08:04guy. And the hosts on the

08:06Cleveland Morning Show, Ken

08:07Carman and Anthony Lima, they

08:10made a great point, which is

08:12nobody has come out on social

08:14media, Miles Garrett's teammates

08:16and said it's not true. We see

08:18that all the time. No reporters,

08:20no teammates have come out and

08:22said that it's not true. And

08:24Jason Lloyd, who wrote the

08:25article, is clearly getting it

08:27from somebody who is probably

08:28still in the building with Miles

08:30Garrett. I bring this up, not

08:32because we're not Cleveland

08:33Radio, I get it, but Derek

08:35Stingley Jr.'s contract is in

08:37lives in the same neighborhood

08:39as Miles Garrett's contract,

08:41and you hear not a peep about

08:43nor from Derek Stingley Jr.

08:45about anything. This is a dream

08:47player. Other than the

08:48medicals, you know, before last

08:50year, this is a dream player,

08:52and hopefully the medicals from

08:542024 are now the trend, not the

08:56exception.

08:57Yeah, this is, you know what,

08:59in terms of how do you approach

09:01the offseason, obviously, this

09:03is going to create, I'm guessing

09:05not any cap issues this year.

09:07Typically, these are extensions

09:09that kick in a year down the

09:11road.

09:12So it might actually create a

09:14little bit of cap space this

09:16year. I do, I do, on the

09:19Casario side of things, I really

09:21do like his practicality, I

09:23think, in the way he handles

09:25extensions and contracts like

09:27this. It's that you're going to

09:29be, you're exposing yourself to

09:31some risk because you're paying

09:33a boatload of money, and you're

09:34paying a boatload of money, but

09:36it's manageable in the short

09:38term, and for any player, not

09:40just Derrick Singley with his

09:42injury history, any player at

09:44all, there's, if you get great

09:46play out of him over the course

09:48of three years, so whether it's

09:50Derrick Singley or Niko Collins

09:52or Daniil Hunter or anybody

09:54else, it's manageable, and you

09:56know what you're dealing with.

09:58It's the opposite of kicking the

10:00can down the road in the way

10:02they're doing now, where they

10:04just keep kicking the can down

10:06the road, and it gets harder and

10:08harder to manage. If you've got

10:10a good quarterback, and you're

10:12getting good play out of them,

10:14and if CJ can develop into that,

10:16that's the way to stay

10:18consistently competitive every

10:20year. So the Texans nailed down

10:22and get a deal nailed down with

10:24one of what I clearly they view

10:26as one of their tentpole

10:28cornerstone players here for

10:30this franchise.

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