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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 843490" data-attributes="member: 7261">Jaguars must be licking their chops.  I wonder what Jalen Ramsey is worth?  The one big advantage of Fitzpatrick, is he still has 3 years and a possible 5th on his rookie deal.  So I am sure that the Steelers factored that in.  Ramsey on the other hand is in his 4th year and even with the 5th year price tag that the Jags picked up on him, he won't be cheap next year for any team that trades for him.As salaries keep rising and star players keep leveraging themselves with threats of not playing or being unhappy, etc. I think we are going to see this more and more.  I think its kind of a bad turn in the road for the NFL, but not too sure how you stop it.Speaking of 5th year options, I just looked at the ones picked up for 2016 draft picks, if you gauge the draft "success" by 5th year options, Kenny Clark was a home run for the Packers!Clark was chosen 27th and his option was exercised.  The 5 players picked after him, none were exercised.  Then when you look at the players chosen 19-26, only 2 of those players had their options picked up.  In total, only 17 of 31 players selected in the 1st round had their 5th year options picked up.  Patriots forfeited their first round pick due to deflategate, which is why on 31 players.</blockquote>

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