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JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 08:45 PM Aug 2016

Chargers pull offer to Joey Bosa; rookie's reps call move 'unfortunate'

SAN DIEGO -- In an action that could result in the team's first-round selection sitting out for the foreseeable future, the San Diego Chargers announced that they have pulled their offer to defensive end Joey Bosa after he declined to accept the team's "best offer" on Wednesday.

Points of contention in the contract impasse remain offset language and the earlier payment of deferred signing bonus money. Bosa's representatives called the team's move "unfortunate."

The Chargers said in a statement they presented Bosa with an offer Tuesday night that included:

an initial signing bonus payment that is larger than any rookie has received in the past two NFL drafts;

more money in 2016 than every rookie in this year's class except the Philadelphia Eagles' Carson Wentz;

the "largest payment and the highest percentage of signing bonus received in the first calendar" of any Chargers first-round pick since the adoption of the NFL's collective bargaining agreement in 2011.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/17383258/san-diego-chargers-pull-offer-unsigned-draft-pick-joey-bosa

I think this is a bad move on Bosa's part. In the day rookie pay scale contracts the best move is to play off the rookie contract, sign the bigger contract. Sitting for a year his value would fall. I don't blame the Chargers, they have the leverage.

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