{"id":84850,"date":"2025-05-28T08:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T08:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/84850\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T08:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T08:43:10","slug":"keyshawn-johnson-files-1-million-lawsuit-against-nfl-agent-over-finders-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/84850\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyshawn Johnson Files $1 Million Lawsuit Against NFL Agent Over Finder’s Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keyshawn Johnson
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\n You Owe Me $1 Mil In Finder’s Fees!!!<\/p>\n

\n Published May 28, 2025 12:30 AM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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Keyshawn Johnson<\/a> has filed a lawsuit against NFL agent Chris Ellison … claiming the guy owes him nearly $1 million for helping funnel clients his way — but Ellison is adamant the allegations are untrue.<\/p>\n

Johnson said in his suit, which was filed in Los Angeles last week and obtained by TMZ Sports, that he and Ellison struck a deal about a decade ago … in which the former New York Jets star agreed to push players to be represented by Ellison in exchange for a portion of the NFL contracts the athletes received.<\/p>\n

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According to the lawsuit, Johnson was to get one-third of the three percent commission Ellison ultimately made on the players’ salaries.<\/p>\n

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But Johnson said Ellison has stiffed him on four of the players he recruited — 49ers CB Deommodore Lenoir, Bears CB Jaylon Johnson, Falcons CB Mike Hughes and Packers WR Romeo Doubs.<\/p>\n

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Johnson claims based on their agreement, Ellison should have forked over $962,335 … but he’s yet to pay — and now, Johnson’s suing to recoup the cash.<\/p>\n

For Ellison’s part, he told TMZ Sports on Tuesday he denies all of the claims Johnson made in the suit.<\/p>\n

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Johnson played in the NFL from 1996 through 2006 … and while he’s become a huge media personality in retirement, he has been known to help mentor high school and college football players through the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keyshawn Johnson Sues NFL Agent … You Owe Me $1 Mil In Finder’s Fees!!! Published May 28, 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,88,6,9,266,4429],"class_list":{"0":"post-84850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-news","13":"tag-tmz-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114584577981827541","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84850","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=84850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}