2 overall pick Chase Young: A remarkably talented pass rusher from Ohio State who has seen his career with the Washington Commanders derailed by a knee injury. Some notable members of that 2020 class who failed to secure their fifth-year options: The 2020 class clearly illustrates that NFL teams made a litany of errors with their picks - or at the very least, put themselves onto a fence when it came to the belief that a player was worth an elevated fifth-year salary. If a franchise is happy with the choice it made, it’s either picking up the option or signing a player to an extension before the option kicks in. Well, the fifth-year option decision serves as the most accurate read on how teams are self-assessing their first-round picks. What does that mean about the 2020 class? (Photo by Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Dubious list includes Chase Young and Henry Ruggs III Even reaching back to the introduction of fifth-year options (when the salaries were initially guaranteed only for injury), the only class that came close to the futility of 2020 was the 2016 draft, which had 15 players fail to lock down their fifth-year option.Ĭommanders defensive end Chase Young hasn't matched his strong first year in the league, when he won defensive Rookie of the Year honors with 7.5 sacks. The 2019 class had 13 players go without their option picked up. The 2018 class saw only 10 players experience a refusal of their fifth-year option. That’s a staggering drop from the previous two draft classes in 20, which - thanks to a change in the collective bargaining agreement - were the first two fifth-year options fully guaranteed (and not simply guaranteed for injury). That means that after three seasons of on-field performance, 62.5% of the 2020 first round failed to have their rookie contracts automatically extended with one additional (and lucrative) fully guaranteed year of pay. “Call the press conference,” Bannon urged Trump while telling the ex-president not to listen to guidance from Ingraham or Graham, “and let’s play the tape from Georgia.That same 2020 pandemic class that leaned so heavily on game tape has set a benchmark for first-round futility with a record-setting 20 players failing to have their fifth-year options picked up by their NFL teams. “And fire half the people down there, by the way!” “He needs to stand up for himself,” Navarro continued. “Trump, Trump, Trump,” Bannon interjected. “The person who should be holding a press conference tomorrow, above anybody, pounding on the frickin’ table-particularly given cesspool in Georgia, the cesspool of Arizona-is Donald John Trump,” Navarro complained, referring to the surreptitiously filmed videos that fueled the baseless allegations of widespread fraud even in Republican-leaning states. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), to nix the counter-programming. However, further reporting from Axios later revealed that the ex-president was pressured by several informal advisers, including Fox News host Laura Ingraham and Sen. “In light of the total bias and dishonesty of the Jan 6 Unselect Committee of Democrats, two failed Republicans, and the Fake News Media, I am canceling the January 6th Press Conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday, and instead will discuss many of those important topics at my rally on Saturday, Jan 15, in Arizona-It will be a big crowd!" Trump wrote in a statement. The event was set to be held at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, but was suddenly canceled on Tuesday afternoon.
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