Lamar Jackson

Irsay has long wanted to go the rookie route, both because of the success other teams have had and because the low cost helps a team build.

A big move for Jackson might not put the Colts in cap prison. A few teams have gone the veteran route and taken it all the way to the mountaintop. The question is how do you spend it, and are you going to be able to sustain greatness? “For me, at least, personally, it’s a relief, because, as I told you guys, after Philip’s year, I wanted to go young. “We’re looking for the future guy, and we want the guy that can be there for the next 10 years,” Irsay said. By the time Irsay spoke on Monday night in Arizona, Jackson’s availability had become the dominant topic of this week’s NFL owners’ meetings.

At times over the past two years, speculation has gurgled regarding the possibility that quarterback Lamar Jackson would like to leave the Ravens and join ...

If the Ravens are willing to trade Jackson, the Dolphins could have gotten involved. The Dolphins were prevented from negotiating with Jackson before the 2023 draft, because they don’t have a first-round pick in the upcoming selection process. Now that we know Jackson has asked the Ravens to trade him, half of that equation is in place.

John Harbaugh says he loves Jackson, but love can't solve everything, and the Ravens can't wait in limbo too long for a player who might not want to play ...

“I don’t know,” Harbaugh said. “To me, this is part of the way it works. “I don’t know anything, really.” As long as that’s true, the Ravens are stuck writing a run-on sentence without many positive outcomes. There’s a lot of little moving parts to this deal that go beyond one player or one team, or anything like that,” he said. Harbaugh would like a deal done “yesterday,” but he joked Monday that he doesn’t need to know his starter until opening day. The owners want Watson’s deal to be an outlier. And I think that’s all kind of weaving its way into (this negotiation).” Jackson, like other players, is pushing for as much guaranteed money as possible after Deshaun Watson signed a fully guaranteed deal with the Browns last spring. He and new offensive coordinator Todd Monken are still building their new offense with the belief that Jackson will run it. Harbaugh loves Jackson, anyway – he said it 11 times during his 30-minute chat with reporters at the NFL’s owners meetings. Never mind that the Ravens still don’t appear close to agreeing on a long-term contract with Jackson.

PHOENIX (AP) — Lamar Jackson's frustration over contract negotiations reached a boiling point when he announced Monday that he has requested a trade from ...

He said he turned down a $133 million, three-year contract that was fully guaranteed. “A fully guaranteed contact in Jackson’s instance means that all quarterbacks on expiring rookie contracts will (and should anyway) demand them in the next cycle. The A team that signs him to an offer sheet would lose two first-round picks if Baltimore declined to match the deal. He’s accomplished more than Watson and doesn’t have the baggage. “The fact that right behind Jackson await quarterbacks like Joe Burrow, Jalen Hurts and Justin Herbert, who have performed at extremely high levels under their rookie deals.

DeShon Elliott has seemingly disrespected his new Miami Dolphins starting quarterback by publicly calling for wantaway Baltimore Ravens star Lamar Jackson ...

“He's a younger player and he's very honest and candid,” McDaniel said. “He's had a really good offseason with his family and training and positioning himself to feel good moving forward. He believes the quarterback will make a major jump in their second season together. Tagovailoa is a very polarising player, loved by many and hated by some. He signed a one-year deal worth $1.77million (£1.4m). The tweet was deleted, but Elliott followed up by saying: “LMAOOO AYE ITS JUST TWITTER.

Lamar Jackson and Aaron Rodgers remain the headliners in an off-season filled with secrets, half-truths and undone deals.

Douglas said he did not expect a deal for Rodgers to be completed in Phoenix. Gutekunst said his motivation for reaching out to other teams in search of a possible deal for Rodgers was rooted in “our inability to reach him or for him to respond in any way.” The Jets executives continue to drop optimistic hints that a deal will be done, and say they are in no rush. [gone public with his desire to join the Jets](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5WuJ55yeHM&ab_channel=ThePatMcAfeeShow), has gotten restless. In an interview with reporters, Green Bay General Manager Brian Gutekunst said the team had tried and failed multiple times to reach Rodgers to have a conversation about their collective, or separate, future. Responding to a news report of Francis’s involvement, [Jackson soon tweeted](https://twitter.com/Lj_era8/status/1639026740377927681), “Stop lying, that man never tried to negotiate for me.” You’re going to go into the Hall as a Packer. Kraft said he responded that the decision was up to Coach Bill Belichick. off-season is carrying the misdirection to a new level. And the rapper Meek Mill is in the ear of his friend, the Patriots owner Robert Kraft, Adding to the confusion, Jackson does not officially have an agent. No one ever wants to give away too much in the sports world.

Do the Patriots have the financial resources and the trade capital to land Lamar Jackson? Amid the trade buzz surrounding the Ravens quarterback, ...

If New England sends current quarterback [Mac Jones](https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/patriots/mac-jones?b) back to Baltimore in a potential trade for Jackson, that would free up about $ 4.25 million in cap space, which should be enough to bring Jackson in without releasing other impact talent. This is common practice in the NFL -- especially in New England, where the Patriots repeatedly restructured [Tom Brady's](https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/patriots/tom-brady?b) contract to [keep his base salary low](https://overthecap.com/player/tom-brady/1250) while backloading his cap hit. [According to multiple reports](https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-qb-lamar-jackson-tweets-he-turned-down-three-year-133m-fully-guaranteed-c), the belief is that Jackson seeks a deal similar to Watson's. [said he requested a trade on March 2](https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/patriots/lamar-jackson-says-he-requested-trade-baltimore-ravens?b), however, opening up a few more options: The Ravens can give Jackson his $ 32.4 million deal then immediately trade him for a return other than two first-rounders. The acquiring team then can restructure Jackson's deal by signing him to an extension, as the Cleveland Browns did with Deshaun Watson in 2022 when they inked him to a five-year, $ 230 million deal that was fully guaranteed. The Ravens placed the non-exclusive franchise tag on Jackson earlier this month, allowing any team to sign Jackson to an offer sheet.

Jim Irsay isn't a fan of fully guaranteed NFL contracts. Will that stop the Colts from pursuing Lamar Jackson?

"Any time a special player is available — which he is — you’ve got to do the work, alright?" So, don't rule the Colts out of the Jackson sweepstakes. All that said, Irsay's comments still won't rule the Colts out of the Jackson sweepstakes. They also protect teams from signing players to fully guaranteed contracts only to see them regress and fail to live up to the deal. "Everyone has to change with the times, that sort of thing. "I line up more with the old-school owners, the Rooneys, the Maras, the Halases," he added.

The 'roster building' Commanders are content with Sam Howell and Jacoby Brissett.

We really do," Rivera said. I don't think it's as a wild shot as people think it is. The Commanders have started 12 different quarterbacks since the start of the 2018 season, the most by any team in the NFL. We are roster building -- I think -- for the first time." These are the things we'd have to think about. "You look at the impact of what your roster building is and the assets we'd have to use to get him," Rivera said.