One of the NFL’s top teams started training camp without their best player today. NY Jets cornerback, Darrelle Revis, is holding out while locked in a contract dispute. Revis is set to make $1 million in the fourth year of his six-year rookie deal, making him one of the lowest-paid defensive backs on the team this season. Revis feels he deserves much more being not only the best player on his team, but the arguably best cornerback in the league. He single handily shutdown top premier receivers of this league and finished second in NFL Defensive Player of the Year voting.
There could be a lot of reasons for Revis holding out from the Jets promising him that his contract situation would be taken care of by training camp to wanting to be the NFL's highest-paid cornerback, a distinction that belongs to Oakland's Nnamdi Asomugha, who signed a three-year, $45.3 million extension last offseason. On top of this, this coach, Rex Ryan, told him he should be the league's highest-paid cornerback, so can you blame the man?
Revis obviously feels he’s doing what needs to be done as he’ll be getting finned $16,523 for each day of his holdout. This isn’t the best way for the Jets to start off who have high expectations surrounded around their organization being ranked in top 5 preseason rankings. I don’t know how long Darrelle plans to hold out, but one thing is for sure is that the Jets’ defense needs him in order to excel!
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