08-28-2006, 07:13 AM
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8/28/06
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The Bills have rookie Donte Whitner, the eighth overall pick in the draft, locked up for six years. The contracts of the players picked sixth (San Francisco's Vernon Davis), seventh (Oakland's Michael Huff) and ninth (Detroit's Ernie Sims) each were five-year deals.
Whitner was one of just a handful of first-round picks who got a signing bonus. Due to salary cap rules, most top picks this year got hefty option bonuses the second year of their contracts. Whitner got a signing bonus of $1.5 million and a $1.348 million roster bonus this year, giving him a salary cap figure of $1.92 million this season. He will get an option bonus of $8.34 million that is spread over the final five years of his contract.
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