JRob had no guaranteed money in that deal with the pats. Something is clearly physically wrong and the Jets and Pats found out what the Jags already knew apparently. You have to wonder if it's not the Achilles, but the knee instead since we saw him run and get a couple of long ones early last year and then we heard about the knee issue right before he was traded. Tough situation for him. Not only is he struggling to catch on somewhere, but his girlfriend probably isn't getting local grocery store radio ad gigs anymore either.

This doesn't apply to JRob's situation so much, but they need to fix the RB pay issue somehow. Maybe they can treat them differently during the draft. Instead of a 4 year contract and 1 year option for 1st rounders, maybe make it a 3 year contract with 1 year option for just RBs taken in the first. Or make the position non-tagable and with no 5th year option available. Allow them to potentially get to free agency or their 2nd contract BEFORE they reach the cliff age for the vast majority of RBs of 27. They generally have very little meat left on the bone by the time they get to negotiate for their 2nd deal which should be their 1 big bite at the apple. Since it affects so few players in the league, it will be challenging to get the players union on board to push such an idea at the next CBA. Also, making RBs non-tagable means other positions have a slightly higher chance of being the one tagged in a given year which the other players are not going to like. Regardless, the current state of affairs with player contracts is particularly unfair to RBs.

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