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As the Oakland Athletics attempted to persuade 2018 first-round pick Kyler Murray to stick with baseball over football, they put a new contract offer on the table that may have given the reigning Heisman Trophy winner cause to pause.
According to Sports Illustrated's Robert Klemko, Oakland offered Murray a deal that featured $14 million in guaranteed money in addition to the $4.6 million signing bonus he was entitled to as the ninth overall pick in last year's MLB amateur draft.
The reworked deal also would have forced the A's to put the 21-year-old on its 40-man roster.
When Murray was drafted by Oakland in June 2018, he was expected to be the Oklahoma Sooner's starting quarterback in the fall. At that point, he was not projected to be a first-round pick in the 2019 NFL draft—so the Athletics gave him their blessing to play one more season of football with the understanding that he would focus on baseball moving forward.
"Circumstances change," Missy Murray, Kyler's mom, told Klemko. "Nobody knew he’d be in the position he is."