The Josh Jacobs situation has gone quiet since he began his training camp holdout. A return to the Raiders could be coming soon for the franchise-tagged running back, however.
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Vincent Bonsignore of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Jacobs is expected to report to the team ahead of their regular season opener. Three weeks remain until Week 1, and Bonsignore adds it remains unclear at this point when exactly Jacobs could be back in the fold. He has yet to sign his $10.1MM tag, but failing to take part in regular season action would result in $561K in weekly missed game checks.
Few firm details have emerged regarding how close the Raiders came to working out a multi-year deal with last year’s rushing champion. An offer worth roughly $12MM per year was reportedly made and rejected, leaving Jacobs in the same situation as the other tagged running backs (Tony Pollard and Saquon Barkley) with respect to having an uncertain long-term future.
Pollard signed his tag, however, and Barkley avoided a holdout with a revised one-year deal involving $900K in incentives. Vegas is believed to be open to talks on a similar compromise, but without Jacobs present it is unlikely much dialogue has taken place in that regard. Assuming he does return with some time remaining before Week 1, head coach Josh McDaniels would welcome the opportunity for him to receive at least some training camp reps.
“I think that it’s important for every player,” McDaniels said. “This is the National Football League, so it’s not easy to go out there and just play games and do it at the speed and level that you want to do it at, unless you’ve really kind of had enough opportunity to get yourself ready to do that.”
After leading the league in scrimmage yards in 2022 and operating as the focal point of the Raiders’ offense, Jacobs should be expected to fairly comfortably pick up where he left off if and when he does return. If that does not turn out to be the case, though, a largely inexperienced contingent of depth backs – led by 2022 fourth-rounder Zamir White – would be leaned on in the Raiders’ regular season opener against the Broncos. For now, signs could be pointing to such a scenario not being necessary.
He better collect on that $10m because he’s not getting it next year.
Without camp if he thinks he’s just going to show up and play he’s as dumb as he looks. He’ll be on IR before the end of the first game.
What’s his incentive to play, more ‘wear & tear’ on his body? None of the tagged RB’s are getting $10m next season. That was made crystal clear this off season.
Considering the Raiders didn’t extend him, then tagged him, why should he care if he goes to the IR or not?
If he went on the IR in the above scenario, he would be looking at a 1 yr 4mm deal next year. Thats why he would care
There is no way he will sit out this season. $0.00 or $10 million is not a hard choice to make. He will be ready to rock n’roll come game time, he doesn’t need to add any additional wear and tear on his body.
Can’t be the next Leveon.
I don’t know why Mark Davis is so insistent on playing hard ball with Jacobs. Rushing champions have some value and I don’t think Marcus Allen is planning a comeback. Maybe Davis thinks Jimmy G will magically transform into the leagues most durable player and not need any support in the backfield.
Exactly. Jacobs has career earnings of only $12M in 4 years. His rushing numbers are slightly better than McCaffrey’s over that period of time (McCaffrey has better receiving stats). For the Raiders not to extend him, then tag him, instead of paying him is total disrespect for your franchise playmaker. Once they released Carr, they had tons of cap space. And for those that think any RB can be plugged and played and get 2,000 yards, yeah right.
These stats are prior to the 2022 season.
link to statspros.com
Simple Economics tell you if you give one player more others will lose $ or be cut. It’s not as easy as you think. And why would a losing team want to invest more into a position they don’t have to. RBs value is low.
Raiders had the cap space to extend him. But didn’t. If they don’t want him, they can rescind the tag. They havent. Derrick Henry is in the last year of a 4 yr $50M contract. Christian McCaffrey signed a 4 year $64M contract with Carolina. Alvin Kamara is making $15M a year.
Thinking that just because a player is a RB, then their value is automatically “low” is not really based in reality.