One famous person huge receiver who appears to be set for an enormous payday is three-time Professional Bowler Justin Jefferson of the Minnesota Vikings, who’s arguably the perfect participant within the recreation at this place.
Though Jefferson is coming off a season marred by accidents the place he solely performed in 10 video games, the consensus across the league is that he’s the NFL’s elite participant at wideout and greater than deserving of resetting the marketplace for gamers at his place.
That mentioned, it appeared like solely a matter of time earlier than Jefferson would signal a contract extension with the Vikings, however nothing has gotten executed, which has led to hypothesis that he might be a coaching camp holdout.
One indication that he might be holding out for a brand new deal, and understandably so, is that he didn’t present up for the workforce’s voluntary offseason program, as reported by Adam Schefter of ESPN.
Vikings WR Justin Jefferson, getting into the final 12 months of a contract that’s scheduled to pay him $19.74 million this season, additionally shouldn’t be current for the beginning of his workforce’s voluntary low season program in the present day. https://t.co/wE6Z14Vv8m pic.twitter.com/YuabOfBBZF
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 15, 2024
As Schefter identified, CeeDee Lamb of the Dallas Cowboys is in the identical scenario and isn’t anticipated to report back to his workforce both in hopes of signing a brand new profitable long-term deal sooner somewhat than later.
With big-name gamers like this making an attempt to signal new offers on the identical time, it might be a matter of 1 ready on the opposite to be able to signal for extra as soon as the bar is ready for top-tier huge receivers.
Solely time will inform what occurs with Jefferson and Lamb and which participant finally ends up signing the largest deal and setting the marketplace for huge receivers transferring ahead.
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