Trent Williams holding out for new deal

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Originally Posted by skinsfaninok

That's why he is smirking while talking, he knows Trent has to show up to get paid.. Yeah he's made great $ in his career but that is still a ton of $ to be leaving on the table..

Also Trent has 2 years left right? There is no chance he sits 2 years lol lets be real here and he knows that too. By the time that comes around he'd be 33 years old and not played in 2 full seasons... Nobody would want him.

Trent will show up before week 3 that's my guess.

Allen has resting 'shit eating grin' face.

But yeah it makes no sense. I don't understand why people believe Trent has any leverage. His choices are:

- as you say, sit for two years and give up $21M, hit the market and try to get a deal at 33 having not played in two years. All the while risking that the Redskins might just franchise tag him anyway.

- sit for 10 games, come back just in time to accrue another NFL season towards his pension, giving up $7M in the process, yet still under team control for another year, so skip the first 10 games again maybe in 2020, giving up another $7M

- play this year, earn $11M, and restart the crusade next year when he's in his last year of his deal and will have more leverage. But the leverage is still limited, because of the prospect of the franchise tag.

- play both years, earn $21M, hit free agency or get tagged by the skins and earn a top 5 salary in his 34 yo year

No matter how you look at it, skipping games is tantamount to shooting himself in the foot out of principle.