Will Landry Hold Out?

I seriously doubt it, this kid looks like he wakes up in the morning looking to hit someone, I don't think he could contain himself not being on the field for the start of training camp.

He will only be hurting himself if he does.

From what I understand we have about $3.5M in our rookie pool, the majority of which will go to Landry. That means he can have a nice base salary, and I'm sure we'll give him in the neighborhood of $20M guaranteed, with a good signing bonus included in that. He'll be in camp. He's not a primadonna like a lot of these top draft picks.

the rookies are alloted a certain amount, yes? he will get paid. thats one thing the skins do right.

They only way I could see a potential "hold out" would be if for some reason the picks in front of Landry hadn't signed yet and his agent was waiting to determine the appropriate "slot" for compensation. That's not really a hold out in my mind, but rather a hold up by the agent to get more market info.

9 times out of 10 the agents are just looking at what the guy in front of or behind their client in the draft was paid by their team and adjusting down or up accordingly. There are obviously some exceptions (when a potential top ten slides way down i.e., Quinn this year).

Keep an eye on those other picks and you'll have a good barometer of when Landry will get signed.

They only way I could see a potential "hold out" would be if for some reason the picks in front of Landry hadn't signed yet and his agent was waiting to determine the appropriate "slot" for compensation. That's not really a hold out in my mind, but rather a hold up by the agent to get more market info.

9 times out of 10 the agents are just looking at what the guy in front of or behind their client in the draft was paid by their team and adjusting down or up accordingly. There are obviously some exceptions (when a potential top ten slides way down i.e., Quinn this year).

Keep an eye on those other picks and you'll have a good barometer of when Landry will get signed.

Exactly what I was going to say. Thats kind of the bitch of all of it, is everyone waits so late to sign, so somtimes things like that happen. Even if he did hold out, I wouldnt take it as "he dosent want to be here" , but he needs to protect himself.

That being said, the Skins' ussually do a very good job with this kind of thing and I'd be suprised if its an issue.

They only way I could see a potential "hold out" would be if for some reason the picks in front of Landry hadn't signed yet and his agent was waiting to determine the appropriate "slot" for compensation. That's not really a hold out in my mind, but rather a hold up by the agent to get more market info.

9 times out of 10 the agents are just looking at what the guy in front of or behind their client in the draft was paid by their team and adjusting down or up accordingly. There are obviously some exceptions (when a potential top ten slides way down i.e., Quinn this year).

Keep an eye on those other picks and you'll have a good barometer of when Landry will get signed.

good post. The nfl's rookie allotment cap structure has helped a lot w/holdouts.

I'm surprised at how many here seem to think a holdout is such a low probability. The signings before him will dictate how much his agent asks for & on top of that his agent may use Desmond Howard's agents' logic; my client is an impact player & should get more than the guy drafted in front of him. Howard's agent said that because he was a wr/returner & Sean Gilbert was a DE that Howard should get paid more even though Gilbert was drafted before him. Landry's agent may play up the "best d-player in the draft" angle.

Plus, the skins may feel that they need to pay him as little as possible so that they won't have to pay ST as much to redo his deal. ST & Rosenhaus will be paying a lot of attention to Landry's deal. Who is LL's agent?

freddyg12 has asked the key question here. Who is Landry's agent?

Some agents ALWAYS have their players sign late - either because they want to see what all the other picks get or because they are finageling for some perk in the contract. Other agents take pride in getting deals done early and "setting the market" for the rest of the draft picks.

So who is Landry's agent? Find out the agent's track record and you'll have a pretty good idea of whether or not he'll be in camp early or late.

I think his agent is named Joel Segal. He also represents Reggie Bush.

He will only be hurting himself if he does.

No, he'd also be hurting the whole team, especially the defense.

If he's not ready and hasn't taken enough defensive snaps in practice and the preseason, he'll find himself out of position and out of synch.

We'd end up with Adam Archuleta again.