Marcus Trufant's deal is actually $50.2 over six seasons.

He has a $10 million signing bonus for this year, a $7 million roster bonus in March of 2009, and a $3 million roster bonus for March of 2010.

His salary for this year and next year will be $1 million, and his salary for the third year of the deal is $5.7 million. He also has $100,000 workout bonuses. Effectively, he has $28 million in guaranteed money, assuming he plays for the Seahawks for the next three years.

When you take into account that Washington state does not have a state income tax, Trufant's deal is actually pretty close to the deals given to Nate Clements and now DeAngelo Hall because California's state income tax is 9.8 percent. This is no small consideration. When I was covering the Washington Bullets way back in the mid-90s, Juwan Howard went to the Miami Heat for $98 million. The NBA voided the contract, saying there was improper contact, but the Bullets had to give Howard a $105 million contract to make the contracts equal because Florida, like Washington, has no state income tax.