Sam Darnold ends package, joins Jets in training camp

So it is curious to see a rookie nowadays, and he is particularly curious to see this defeat as the quarterback of the team. This is the case of Sam Darnold, whom the Jets took with this year's draft No. 3 pick but who, on Monday morning, did not show up at the training camp yet, even though he's got a four-year guarantee about $ 30 million, with a signing bonus of $ 20 million. Later that day, however, both ESPN Adam Schefter and Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News reported that both parties had reached agreement on the details of Darnold's contract, Leading the way Darnold had stayed near the Jets camp in New Jersey and had made a quick appearance on the team's Twitter feed after signing his contract.

Darnold was then greeted by a thunderclap. he joined his teammates at the training camp for the first time (Mehta says that it was designed by Jamal Adams safety):

The reasons for the stalemate depended on who you read. Mehta described the contractual quarrel as a test of will between the Jets and Darnold's agent, Jimmy Sexton, on the so-called "offbeat" language of the contract. In essence, such language provides some protection to the Jets in the unlikely event that they cut off Darnold during his rookie contract. By including the lag language, the Jets could reduce the money they should to Darnold should he sign with another team. Without the clause, Darnold would get the full amount owed to the Jets plus all the money he gets from the team that signs it.

Mehta reported later on Monday that Darnold's contract will indeed include shift language. For comparison, Baker Mayfield agreed to include an offbeat language in his contract with the Browns, which Mehta says thwarted Sexton because he reduced his influence with the Jets in his Darnold negotiations

Rich ESPN's Cimini, meanwhile, said the shift language "remains a problem" but raises another blocking point. The Jets want to include a clause in the contract that would void any money guarantee to Darnold if he is simply fined by the league for damaging conduct on or off the court. It's a lower threshold than the contracts signed by Mayfield and Josh Allen, a quarterback taken with the seventh pick by the Buffalo Bills. Both have clauses that cancel their guaranteed money if they are suspended, not fine. In addition, it would be relatively rare for such a high choice to accept such a low threshold: Cimini says that in the last 10 drafts of the NFL, none of the top 3 choices have accepted a clause that would cancel the guaranteed money in the case of a fine. In addition, the Jets are part of a handful of NFL teams who claim such clauses from their recruits, according to Mehta .

A third possible reason appeared Monday morning, via Michael Silver of the NFL Network. He says that the Darnold holdup is not based on a clearing clause, but rather on a lapse wording that allows a team to recover money if a player is injured by practicing certain activities outside. soccer. The Jets include such language in all their contracts and would probably not be willing to make an exception for Darnold, because then all the other players they write would like the same courtesy to be given to them.

In any case, Darnold now seems ready to join Josh McCown and Teddy Bridgewater as quarterback of the Jets' training camp.

"That's part of the job," coach Todd Bowles said last weekend, according to the Associated Press. "You face something every year, I'm not disappointed, I have a bunch of guys here to train and prepare for the season."

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