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NFL Insider believes Terry McLaurin\u2019s standoff with the Commanders is about to end<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Commanders <\/a>kick off the regular season against their divisional rival New York Giants in a little over three weeks.<\/p>\n

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Anybody that\u2019s been monitoring the Commanders<\/a> offense during training camp understands Washington needs to have Terry McLaurin<\/a> on the field and ready to play as the team starts the new season.<\/p>\n

McLaurin<\/a> \u2014 who is entering the final year of his contract \u2014 has been sitting out of team activities as his agent tries to reach an extension for the Commanders top wide receiver.<\/p>\n

The Washington<\/a> No. 1 WR is set to make roughly $18 million in 2025, and with a surge in the market for the league\u2019s top pass catchers and players like DK Metcalf inking a deal in Pittsburgh that pays him $33 million annually, it\u2019s easy to see why McLaurin feels he\u2019s underpaid.<\/p>\n

The biggest question mark is surrounding the amount of money McLaurin<\/a> and his agent are requesting vs. the raise the Commanders<\/a> are willing to give him. Based on how slow the negotiations have been and McLaurin<\/a> officially requesting a trade, it\u2019s been clear the two sides haven\u2019t been close.<\/p>\n

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Yahoo NFL Insider Charles Davis gave a surprising report<\/a> about the initial offer from McLaurin\u2019s camp to the team on a podcast earlier this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think, I think what happened, the way I understand it is, you know, when negotiations first opened, I think the Commanders<\/a> were a little stunned by initially what Terry McLaurin<\/a> and his camp were really gunning for,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n

Davis then alluded that the request from McLaurin\u2019s camp was so egregious it almost completely broke down talks between the two sides.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I think everyone’s being careful about not saying what the initial number was, but I will say it was high enough that it almost completely broke down conversation instantaneously between the two parties,,\u201d Davis added.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s hard to envision McLaurin<\/a> requesting to be paid like CeeeDee Lamb or Justin Jefferson in the 35k+ tier of receivers, but it isn\u2019t unrealistic if he wanted a similar contract to Metcalf, who came from the same draft class and hasn\u2019t produced as consistently.<\/p>\n

The major sticking point? Metcalf is only 27-years-old, while McLaurin turns 30 in September. There is well-documented data that shows many of the top receivers in recent NFL history have had a major drop off after turning 30, from DeAndre Hopkins to Davante Adams.<\/p>\n

McLaurin became a hold-in and was placed on the physically unable to perform list with an apparent ankle injury suffered last season, though he participated in spring workouts. By reporting, McLaurin could no longer be fined $50,000 per day,\u201d\u00a0ESPN\u2019s John Keim explained.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cBoth sides have remained firm in their stances. For Washington, the fact that McLaurin will turn 31 when an extension begins has been a key factor. But he was drafted in the same 2019 class as DK Metcalf and has been equally productive. After getting traded to the Steelers this offseason, Metcalf signed a contract worth $33 million per year with $60 million guaranteed. That deal has served as a guide for McLaurin’s demands,\u201d\u00a0ESPN staff wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n

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But earlier this week, a league source shared with Keim that the two sides could be closer to a deal and a resolution could be in sight with the two sides potentially agreeing on an extension that would pay McLaurin $28 million per year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think they want to go above $28 million,\u201d Keim said. \u201cBut I do think to get this done, I\u2019ll say Adam Peters is not talking about this, so you piece things together. Could I see it getting there, yes. I think if you want to get it done, that\u2019s where they would have to get to. And I think that\u2019s what Terry and his side would have to go down to, They are not going up to his number.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL Insider believes Terry McLaurin\u2019s standoff with the Commanders is about to end originally appeared on The Sporting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19126,5430,4695,2870,7,2780,56,6,520,7186,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-289425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-charles-davis","9":"tag-davante-adams","10":"tag-deandre-hopkins","11":"tag-dk-metcalf","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-justin-jefferson","14":"tag-new-york-giants","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-pittsburgh","17":"tag-terry-mclaurin","18":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115031385263587909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}