Perspective: Guaranteed contracts aren’t about enrichment as much as they are about decency, which means Lamar Jackson has a chance to better the league.
Hamlin’s plight highlighted what little care there can be for players who toil in a sport that, as its union reminds, has a 100 percent injury rate. When Hamlin dropped to the ground in that game the day after New Year’s, he was in the second season of his four-year rookie contract that was ballyhooed to be worth $3.64 million. But the money wasn’t all guaranteed.
That is what Lamar Jackson is standing for, protection of salary against injury in a sport in which everyone — particularly a player like Jackson, who handles the object of 11 other players’ violent fascination, the football — is certain to be hurt. The only question is to what degree? And that is why every other player should stand in solidarity with Jackson. His fight — which he revealed recently, presumably to a team that would assure his wage — isn’t selfish. It is self-sacrificing.
Though Jackson is under contract with the Ravens for next season, his stance puts his immediate future in jeopardy. To be sure, other owners revealed their thoughts in recent days about bringing him into their fold under his terms.. “I think that a percentage is one thing, but from what I’ve seen from the NBA and baseball, I don’t see it as a positive competitively. For me, for the good of the game, boy, I don’t believe guaranteed contracts would be good for our game at all. At all.
It’s not about the league, of course, unless you’re one of the owners, who, by the way, are guaranteed checks before the regular season kicks off from the broadcast partners who help them sustain their billionaire status. Guaranteed contracts are about the players, the 1,700 or so laborers who sustain the concussions that lead to brain injury and all manner of problems later in life.
It is about Jackson, an MVP quarterback, an electrifying performer who became the first quarterback to have multiple 1,000 yards rushing seasons and who made the Ravens, once again, a perennial title contender.Unable to shed the NFL brand, though, Jackson got hurt along the way. He sustained a knee injury last season during the 13th week and
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