Crushzilla
07-30-2007, 06:03 PM
Sorry to make the title of this thread so deceiving. Thought I would post up an interesting "perhaps" that I read on Florio's site. I don't think, and he doubts, that this will happen, but being that he's a former Panther and a lot of people wanted him in the first round...
COULD REVIS RE-ENTER THE DRAFT?
A league source tells us that the primary snag in the talks between the Jets and cornerback Darrelle Revis, the No. 14 overall pick in the draft, is that the Jets are insisting on Revis signing a six-year deal, but that Revis wants a five-year contract.
With so many players taken in the top 16 signing deals of five years in duration instead of the CBA maximum of six seasons, the refusal of the Jets to do a five-year deal could cause this to become one of the lengthier holdouts of the bunch. And there are indications that, unless the Jets yield on this point, Revis might sit out the entire season and re-enter the draft.
Keep this in mind -- the uncle of Revis, Sean Gilbert, once sat out an entire season in a dispute with the Redskins. And thereafter Gilbert got paid a bunch of money.
Will it happen with Revis? At this point, it's way too early to tell. But, unlike every other rookie or holdout, he's a least got someone in the family who played the patience game, and eventually won it. So if the Jets won't drop the demand for a six-year deal and unless the six-year deal compensates Revis fully and fairly for the extra year of free agency that he'll be sacrificing, Revis could end up re-entering the draft in 2008.
http://www.profootballtalk.com/rumormill.htm
If by some long shot he DID re-enter in '08. Would he still be a favorite for the Steelers?
What round would you want to draft him?
Would you still want him considering he denied his first drafters?
Is the temptation of getting a guy you really wanted the year before, even though he's another year older, be too much?
COULD REVIS RE-ENTER THE DRAFT?
A league source tells us that the primary snag in the talks between the Jets and cornerback Darrelle Revis, the No. 14 overall pick in the draft, is that the Jets are insisting on Revis signing a six-year deal, but that Revis wants a five-year contract.
With so many players taken in the top 16 signing deals of five years in duration instead of the CBA maximum of six seasons, the refusal of the Jets to do a five-year deal could cause this to become one of the lengthier holdouts of the bunch. And there are indications that, unless the Jets yield on this point, Revis might sit out the entire season and re-enter the draft.
Keep this in mind -- the uncle of Revis, Sean Gilbert, once sat out an entire season in a dispute with the Redskins. And thereafter Gilbert got paid a bunch of money.
Will it happen with Revis? At this point, it's way too early to tell. But, unlike every other rookie or holdout, he's a least got someone in the family who played the patience game, and eventually won it. So if the Jets won't drop the demand for a six-year deal and unless the six-year deal compensates Revis fully and fairly for the extra year of free agency that he'll be sacrificing, Revis could end up re-entering the draft in 2008.
http://www.profootballtalk.com/rumormill.htm
If by some long shot he DID re-enter in '08. Would he still be a favorite for the Steelers?
What round would you want to draft him?
Would you still want him considering he denied his first drafters?
Is the temptation of getting a guy you really wanted the year before, even though he's another year older, be too much?