The new season of HBO’s Hard Knocks featuring the New York Jets, which premieres next Wednesday, just got a whole lot less interesting. That’s because Jets All-Pro cornerback Darrelle Revis is officially holding himself out of training camp to try and force the J-E-T-S (Jets! Jets! Jets!) to give him a long-term contract that’ll make him the highest-paid CB in the NFL.
It doesn’t look like the Jetties are gonna budge anytime soon, either, which could result in a loooong contract holdout for Revis and possibly put his chances of playing at the start of the NFL’s regular season in jeopardy. By doing that, he’d put himself in the company of some other notable players who used contract holdouts to try and get paid. Check out these 11 former and current players who held out of all team activities in order to get their NFL teams in order to get their teams to cut a better check. Cha-ching!
Bo Jackson, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Bo knows holdouts. Though he spent his playing career running the field for the Los Angeles Raiders, he was actually drafted by the Buccaneers in the first round of the 1986 NFL Draft but refused to accept the team’s contract offer. Instead, he went to Kansas City to play baseball for the Royals. As a result, he was selected again by the Raiders in the 1987 draft–in the seventh round!–and was a Pro Bowl running back for the team by 1990.
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