Examine please: Payments RB James Cook dinner assured payday is ‘going to get finished’

Buffalo Payments working again James Cook dinner can carry the “verify, please” method by way of coaching camp due to his confidence degree an enormous payday is coming quickly.

“I imply, nevertheless it occurs, it is going to get finished. Wherever it occurs at,” Cook dinner mentioned Thursday after taking part within the first two days of exercises, opting to not maintain out whereas working towards a contract extension.

“We’ve talks. … I imply, I deserve what I need, I want and it is going to finally occur,” Cook dinner mentioned.

Coming into the ultimate 12 months of his contract, the 25-year-old Cook dinner set a franchise file for dashing touchdowns in a single season with 16 in 2024. He has 2,638 dashing yards for the reason that Payments drafted him in 2022.

Normal supervisor Brandon Beane mentioned the Payments need to be a crew that drafts, develops and rewards homegrown expertise. However the monetary issue is ever-present.

“Typically you may’t get on the identical web page or generally you are making an attempt to suit it in,” Beane mentioned. “There’s occasions guys have left right here that we actually needed. We simply could not make it work. However I can let you know, I am hopeful, once we’re sitting right here at subsequent 12 months’s coaching camp that James Cook dinner is on the market working towards and nonetheless representing the crimson, white and blue.”

Cook dinner mentioned he owes solely himself, household and teammates. However he reported and is taking part in camp out of that obligation and to remind teammates he is able to go.

“It is my job,” Cook dinner mentioned. “I bought to take part so I will not get fined and simply come out right here and simply present them that I am able to go and earn what I bought to go get.”

Cook dinner can be topic to every day fines for not reporting as a result of he is below contract. He mentioned “I like my cash” when requested if the fines had been a holdout deterrent.

Requested once more Thursday about his Instagram reside put up underscoring his reference to a price ticket of “15 mill (per) 12 months,” Cook dinner mentioned he had no regrets about pinning that determine on social media.

“James is a aggressive dude. He is a stud. He is a good teammate. He needs to be right here,” Beane mentioned. “James matches Buffalo. However generally you may’t get on the identical web page.”

–Subject Degree Media