Derek Carr’s $19.9M Salary Becomes Fully Guaranteed Today

Field Yates of ESPN reports that the Derek Carr‘s 2019 base salary of $19.9 million becomes fully guaranteed on Wednesday.

Adam Schefter notes that Carr also has a $100,000 workout bonus that will bring his guaranteed money to $20 million for this coming season.

Carr came up as a potential trade candidate last year and Peter King recently mentioned that there’s “lots of suspicion” that the Raiders could draft a quarterback high this year to sit behind Carr. 

Even though his salary will be fully guaranteed, it doesn’t change much when it comes to trading Carr from the Raiders perspective, assuming they would want to go this route. 

However, new GM Mike Mayock said last week that Carr is the “least of [their] problems.”

“When you look at 32 teams in this league, and there aren’t 32 starting quarterbacks, yet we have one of them,” Mayock said, per Michael Gehlken. “He’s a starting quarterback in the NFL. He can make every throw. We’ve got to do a better job of protecting him and giving him weapons. He played with two rookie tackles last year. We need to get more speed on offense. We need to be more dynamic.

“Derek Carr, at this point, is kind of the least of our problems.”

Carr, 27, is a former second-round pick of the Raiders back in 2014. He is was in the final year of his contract when the Raiders signed him to a five-year, $125 million extension that included $70 million guaranteed in 2017.

Carr stands to make base salaries of $19.9 million and $18.9 million over the next two years of the agreement.

In 2018, Carr appeared in all 16 games and thrown for 4,049 yards while completing 68.9 percent of his passes to go along with 19 touchdowns and 10interceptions. He has also rushed for 47 yards and a touchdown.