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Former Harvard running back Tony Hinz, currently competing in training camp with the New England Patriots, agreed to contract terms last week with the National Football League club. Details of the pact were not disclosed...
...terms of the contract are subject to Hinz not being released by the squad before the NFL's final cut in the end of August, when teams have to reduce their rosters to 47 players. There are currently 71 players in the Patriots camp, as well as eight unsigned veterans and six unsigned rookies...
...Hinz also received a signing bonus, which will increase as long as he stays in training camp...
...feel I got a pretty good deal, especially considering the circumstances," Hinz said Wednesday in an telephone interview from the squad's Bryant College training camp in Smithfield, R.I. "I know there's been a lot of trouble signing rookies around the league, and the market isn't that great right now. There are still a lot of players out of camp here...
...average salaries in the league keep rising, management will try to devise any methods to thwart rising costs," Duberstein said, "but I would say Hinz got a Harvard-sized deal. If he sticks with the team, he certainly will have the best contract of all 11th-round draft choices--he got a contract equivalent to that of a high eighth-round choice...