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then. The league’s collective bargaining with the NFL Players Association creates a narrow structure for rookie contracts, but no such structure exists for a player’s second deal. Jackson seems to have done fine, but the risk is greater now.It takes a certain confidence to represent yourself against an NFL front office, which employs a small army of salary cap specialists and contract negotiators and lawyers whose job in life is to get the best deals from the team’s perspective.
Jackson is betting on himself not just as the talent but as his own buffer. There’s no agent to tap him on the shoulder and ask him to soften his stance.Maybe Jackson does not need one. Agents are dealmakers. They often have long client lists. They rely on maintaining amicable relationships with all 32 franchises. They have other deals to negotiate. Their commission structure means that a dollar gained for a player is less than that for the agent. The sausage gets made efficiently.
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