ReutersCAA beefed up its agent stable last year with the addition of Jimmy Sexton. They’re now beefing up their portfolio of clients with Alabama running back Trent Richardson.
Liz Mullen of SportsBusiness Journal reports that Richardson has signed with Sexton and Ben Dogra of CAA.
Viewed as a potential top-five pick (although that’s too high in today’s game for anyone not named Barry Sanders or Walter Payton), Richardson gives CAA a fairly significant consolation prize in the failed quest for former Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck, who’ll be represented by a family member who parlayed that relationship into a job with Wasserman Media Group.
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It’s all be formula now anyway. So it really doesn’t matter who you end up with.
Adrian peterson, marshall faulk
The only way he’s top 5 is if Cleveland takes him at 4 all the other teams have greater needs other then RB…
Can you tell us what CAA stands for?
Creative Artists Agency. I had to search for about 30 minutes.
Sexton handles Saban and other Bama coaches, so it is not a reach that he would land Richardson as well as several other Bama kids.
i10east says:
Jan 25, 2012 4:00 PM
Creative Artists Agency. I had to search for about 30 minutes.
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You should learn how to use Google better.