Duke Tobin suggests Ja’Marr Chase modified his thoughts throughout contract talks with Bengals final yr

The Cincinnati Bengals are going to make Ja’Marr Chase the highest-paid non-quarterback within the NFL. This, in line with director of participant personnel Duke Tobin.

There’s nonetheless a matter of settlement on what that appears like within the contract construction, however Tobin appears assured the 2 sides will make it occur.

For what it’s value, whereas talking on the NFL Mix, Tobin indicated that Chase seemingly modified his thoughts about one thing throughout contract talks the final time round, which helped result in the deal falling by means of after many thought it was on the verge of completion.

“He modified his thoughts, which is okay,” Tobin mentioned. “We understood. There’s no onerous emotions on this stuff. I don’t get offended about these things. It’s simply enterprise. We’re looking for the 53 gamers on this workforce, and numerous instances, they’re looking for the one. It’s their agent’s job to look out for the one, they usually have to know it’s my job to look out for the totality.”

It definitely is simple to provide Chase that deal after he simply completed the 2024 season with the receiving triple crown (main the league in receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns). It’s like when a quarterback wins the Tremendous Bowl in a contract yr, you realize he’s going to receives a commission.

As for what modified throughout talks final yr, Tobin is referring to how the 2 sides could not agree on a contract final offseason regardless of being nearer than many bear in mind it.

Final offseason, the 2 sides reportedly had an settlement in place on a contract, however Chase’s facet reportedly backed out on account of a disagreement on the assured cash that was included.

That can seemingly nonetheless be a sticking level right here as Cincinnati is not a fan of big assured cash, regardless of seemingly being the final workforce within the NFL to try to battle that shedding battle. That battle goes to price them some huge cash in the long term, as Chase clearly has the excessive floor right here with receiver contracts exploding.

They seemingly will nonetheless find yourself having to provide an enormous assured quantity to get this deal achieved, however they may in all probability discover it simpler to make an exception with how vital Chase has confirmed to be.

In the end, it’s in all probability going to be the only real purpose this deal takes any sort of negotiating on the finish of the day.