Lamar Jackson’s request to be traded from the Ravens, now over a month old, has been met with apathy from either the Ravens or the NFL’s other 31 teams or both. Many onlookers are incredulous this is happening to Jackson, and that teams are not taking advantage of the chance to trade for this one-time MVP and game-changing player. They blame the other teams, the Ravens and Jackson for his insistence on not having an agent. The real culprits, however, are not any of those things. They are 1) the Deshaun Watson contract, which has been “a thing” for a year now, although NFL teams refuse to recognize it as such, and 2) the franchise tag, collectively bargained between the NFL and the NFLPA.
Let’s examine five things I think about Lamar Jackson.
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