Darrelle Revis did not skip the Jets’ mandatory minicamp last month, but it does not appear the Jets are in the clear with him as he could still skip at least the start of Training Camp. Count ESPN’s Chris Mortensen in the group of people who believe Revis will skip the start of Training Camp as he said on Mike and Mike in the Morning that he would be “surprised” if Revis showed up for the start of camp.
Revis has been paid like the top cornerback in the league he is over the past 2 seasons, making 32.5 million, but is owed just 13.5 million over the next 2 seasons and probably wants to be paid that 16.25 million dollar rate into the future. In fact, I’m guessing Revis’ understanding when he signed the heavily frontloaded deal was that the Jets would pay him as the top cornerback in the league for 2 years and if he continued to be the best cornerback in the league over those 2 years, they’d give him a long term deal in the 2012 NFL offseason.
It’s now the 2012 offseason and Revis held up his end of the deal. At the very least, he’ll want more than the 60 million over 5 years that Nnamdi Asomugha got from the Eagles last offseason when he was almost 4 years older. The Jets should want to avoid a hold out at all costs with Revis because he is their best player and a bright star on a team does not appear to be in a good position. Also, the last time he held out (2010, for his current deal), he got out of shape like Chris Johnson did last year and was not quite his normal dominant self.
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