I went back to my old spreadhseet to check it out. He was definitely in there in contention towards the end, but his low-ish Pa (at the time, maybe now it's different) compared to Almada (backup SG at the time) made me choose the latter instead. And his inside skills are too low to be considered for a SF spot IMO.
But as you said 85k is really good for a player like that with 90+ OSP and 30+ ISP. I had a player similar to that with about 10 more OSP, but I paid him 50k more each week, not sure he was 50% better (and he didn't even really made the NT)