Someone in the NFLPA is reportedly leaking details about Lamar Jackson’s contract talks with the Ravens.
On Sunday, ESPN’s Chris Mortensen released an extremely detailed report regarding Jackson’s contract negotiations with the Ravens.
Sources: Lamar Jackson rejected a Ravens' 6-yr contract offer with $133 million fully guaranteed at signing, which is more than Russell Wilson ($124 million) and Kyler Murray ($103.3 million) but well short of the $230 million fully guaranteed deal that Deshaun Watson got.
— Chris Mortensen (@mortreport) September 11, 2022
In terms of total money over the six years, Jackson could have earned in excess of $290 million and his average per year would exceed Russell Wilson's recent deal at $48.5 APY, which did adjust the Ravens final offer but the contract was not fully guaranteed as Jackson sought.
— Chris Mortensen (@mortreport) September 11, 2022
In one of Mortensen’s tweets, he mentioned that “union sources” had to told him about certain aspects of Jackson’s negotiations.
Union sources framed the Ravens' talks with Jackson as "good faith" although the team included $2.5 million in annual de-escalator clauses if Jackson did not attend a high % of off-season workouts.
FYI: Fully guaranteed money covers regardless of skill, injury and salary cap.— Chris Mortensen (@mortreport) September 11, 2022
Jackson does not have an agent and has been using the players union to help guide him through a deal. According to Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio, Jackson will not be happy to hear that someone in the union is leaking details about his negotiations with the Ravens.
Lamar Jackson and the Ravens had kept the details of their talks extremely quiet. Someone from the NFLPA shared some of those details with ESPN. Lamar likely will not be happy about that. https://t.co/0dwzR6Sjsn
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) September 11, 2022
The report has the union’s fingerprints all over it, in part because Mortensen specifically identified in one of his tweets “union sources.” In other words, someone from the union was talking. Per a source with knowledge of Jackson’s mindset regarding the negotiations, he will be “pissed” that something was said by someone with the NFL Players Association.
It’s really weird that someone in the NFLPA choose to leak anything about Jackson’s contract talks considering how sensitive that stuff is.
As of now it doesn’t appear that the Ravens and Jackson will be figuring out contract talks anyways.
