All of these offers are for two years and include a signing bonus.
Those officials also say Johnson wants a signing bonus of some $15 million.
He gets a $100,000 signing bonus and $900,000 in 1992.
One possibility would be to include the entire signing bonus in the first year.
What, I ask, will he do with his signing bonus?
The signing bonus is believed to be worth about $2.5 million.
His signing bonus was less than $5,000, or a quarter of what most American players get.
Smith said the most he has ever received in a signing bonus was $1.5 million.
The deal was worth $2.165 million over four years and included a $66,000 signing bonus.
Just out of high school, still working on his English, he got a $300,000 signing bonus two years ago.