Saquon Barkley and Josh Jacobs will play this NFL season on the franchise tag. Or they won't.
"At this point , just take the RB position out the game then," Henry wrote on Twitter."The ones that want to be great & work as hard as they can to give their all to an organization, just seems like it don't even matter. I'm with every RB that's fighting to get what they deserve."
Fortunately for Henry, he's not facing the same circumstances as Jacobs and Barkley. He's approaching the final year of a four-year $50 million extension to his rookie contract and was awardedlast offseason. He got his big payday. But he'll be fighting for another one soon. Austin Ekeler is playing on considerably less lucrative 4-year, $24.5 million contract with the Los Angeles Chargers. He requested a trade this offseason in search of a new deal, but is remaining with the Chargers after. Like Henry, he pronounced his support for his fellow running backs while calling Miller's take on running back disposability"trash."
This is the kind of trash that has artificially devalued one of the most important positions in the game. Everyone knows it’s tough to win without a top RB and yet they act like we are discardable widgets. I support any RB doing whatever it takes to get his bag.
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