Speaking Sports with TJ
The NFL mandatory training camps have started and yet again there are some players who are refusing to report to camp because they want new contract extensions. Every year this happens, and players lose out on numerous amounts of money in hopes of receiving a huge contract extension. Most of the time players will just embrace the fines until they get their contract and if they don’t get a contract they demand a trade from their team.
Usually their team will fold and give the extension that the player is hoping for but occasionally the player loses and must play out the season and hope to sign a big contract during free agency.
The players that do this take huge gambles every year due to the fact that they don’t have any guarantee of this working out, but the reward makes the risk worth it. We have seen many players receive extensions from putting the pressure on their teams in order to keep them.
Most star players do this when they want to get a huge contract extension and their team won’t give them an extension. They typically end up winning in these scenarios because they are huge names in the sport, and everyone knows the value that they have.
Jordan Love of the Green Bay Packers is the most recent example of this. Love had threatened to not show up to mandatory training camp without receiving an extension and now he is the highest paid player in NFL history after signing a 4 year 220-million-dollar extension.
There is a great chance that many players begin to use this as leverage in order to sign huge contract extensions.
There has been a long history of star players wanting contract extensions and receiving their extensions by threatening to skip training camps. If you look back at the history, it is how most of the highest paid players get their deals.
This happens every single year and it is always entertaining to watch due to the fact that they create so much drama and trade rumors start to be thrown around because of them wanting a contract extension and certain teams being desperate to land star players.
