The Minnesota Vikings superstar is one of several receivers waiting on a contract extension. Plus, the situation in Dallas with CeeDee Lamb, Dak Prescott and Micah Parsons, and more in Albert Breer’s Tuesday notes.
The NFL spring meeting in Nashville is on deck, which means a bunch of coaches getting the chance to hobnob with owners, and those owners voting on how they can interview those coaches in January. As for what else is happening, let’s jump in …
• A lot of ink will be spilled and airwaves filled with receiver contract negotiations in the coming weeks, and there are none bigger than those involving the Minnesota Vikings and Justin Jefferson. So let’s start with the obvious. He wasn’t at the team facility Monday, and that was expected. He also missed a chunk of last year’s OTAs to train in Miami. He said, at the time, it was to pursue endorsement opportunities.
The NFL spring meeting in Nashville is on deck, which means a bunch of coaches getting the chance to hobnob with owners, and those owners voting on how they can interview those coaches in January. As for what else is happening, let’s jump in …
• A lot of ink will be spilled and airwaves filled with receiver contract negotiations in the coming weeks, and there are none bigger than those involving the Minnesota Vikings and Justin Jefferson. So let’s start with the obvious. He wasn’t at the team facility Monday, and that was expected. He also missed a chunk of last year’s OTAs to train in Miami. He said, at the time, it was to pursue endorsement opportunities.
But he also conceded to me, when we talked about it last summer, that the life-changing second contract he had coming would fulfill “a dream of mine. It’s been a dream since I was 7 years old.”
Jefferson has certainly been patient with that dream, playing last year without a new contract, and going through this offseason without one while Detroit Lions receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown got paid and A.J. Brown got another contract with the Philadelphia Eagles. And those two deals are benchmarks moving forward. St. Brown’s deal was advertised at $28 million per year, while Brown’s contract was at $32 million annually. And what’s most interesting about their deals is how quickly the money comes.
Brown’s due $80 million over the first three years of his revised contract, which is a nice bump over the $68 million he’d previously been owed for that period of time. And St. Brown landed $63.386 million over the first three years of his new deal. He’d been owed $3.366 million in the final year of his rookie deal, which means he’s getting $60 million in new money for the two new years.
