NFLPA records confirm Daniel Jones agent change

Posted by Mike Florio on February 22, 2023, 9:28 AM EST
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It’s official. Daniel Jones has new agents.

The NFL Players Association database of players and the agents who represent them shows, after several days of not listing Jones at all (which meant he had no agent), that he is represented by three agents from Athletes First.

The agents listed in connection with Jones are Brian Murphy, the CEO of Athletes First, along with Andrew Kessler and Camron Hahn.

Jones is due to become a free agent in March. If the two sides can’t work out a new deal, the Giants undoubtedly will apply the franchise tag by March 7.

We’ve heard Jones is looking for upwards of $45 million per year. Given the market and the ever-increasing salary cap, it’s not crazy. But with the Giants able to tag him at $32.416 million for one year, it could be hard to get them to go much higher than $35 million annually on a multi-year deal.

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13 responses to “NFLPA records confirm Daniel Jones agent change”

  1. If it’s not crazy for this guy to ask for $45 million, then it’s not crazy for Jackson to ask for $45-50 million with most of it guaranteed.

  2. Daniel Jones threw 15 TD’s last year. Word is he wants $45 Million per season, so $3 million per TD. No Way I would ever pay that type of money for such measly production.

  3. Exclusive tag number doesn’t “lock in” until April 21st. Teams have to be under the cap (Top 51) by March 15th. The exclusive number will come down. Last 3 years, the exclusive tag has been about 10% more than the non-exclusive tag. That would make the exclusive ~$35M for the 1st tag. 2nd tag would be 20% higher or $42M. That’s an average of $38.5M, with $77M guaranteed over the 2 years. If Daniel Jones is willing to bet on himself, he shouldn’t take less than $38.5M per year, $192.5M over 5, with less than $80M guaranteed at signing.

  4. He threw for 15 touchdowns last year, so a new contract with millionsss guaranteed is laughable. To be honest, he’s lucky to get franchise tag money, and he should know that without having to hire a new team of agents who will undoubtedly be telling him otherwise. Brian Daboll cant be having this kinda crap and be liking it.

  5. Daniel Jones, who averages 11 ints a year wants $45m a year. Yeah that makes sense and not crazy at all.

  6. DJ is an OK starter who didn’t screw up too badly with an offense well designed to minimize his flaws and highlight his strengths. Never going to be a Top 10 QB, so I’m fine paying him $70 mn for next 2 years, but no more. That’s enough time to find the next mediocre QB. Sad to see how few QB’s learn the Brady lesson. Make big money rather than crazy money and have a good team around you that’s in the playoffs every year. Not like $35 mn per year isn’t going to create generational wealth anyway. How much do you need? Does winning matter?

  7. Reminds me of that sarcastic old baseball commercial where the guy was batting like .200 & hit maybe five dingers and was bragging about how much he was worth. Jones could do the modern day football commercial – joke.

  8. It is comical how some seem to think he proved himself worthy of a big contract this year. He improved from awful to the low end of mediocre and some keep talking about how he had no receivers. His receivers didn’t produce but the common denominator is Jones. Kenny Golladay put up numbers in Detroit and fell off the face of the Earth with the Giants. High draft picks failed and contribute to other teams once they are sent away. Coming out of Duke, everyone blamed his teammates for his turnovers. I could not understand why he was drafted so high then and can’t understand why anyone would entertain paying him $30 million per year now, let alone $45 million per year. But here’s hoping the Giants look him up with a very long, expensive deal. Get every dime you can, Danny.

  9. rockpiler says:
    February 22, 2023 at 10:13 am
    He threw for 15 touchdowns last year, so a new contract with millionsss guaranteed is laughable. To be honest, he’s lucky to get franchise tag money, and he should know that without having to hire a new team of agents who will undoubtedly be telling him otherwise. Brian Daboll cant be having this kinda crap and be liking it.

    I’m a Giants fan for 4+ decades. This is perfectly said, given the year DJ had. He improved in his 5th year but that’s not enough to earn north of $30 million.

  10. It’s obvious most people leaving comments weren’t watching the Giants. His receivers were hurt and/or terrible and his line wasn’t good. He was running for his life back there. He threw for 3200 and ran for another 700. I saw perfect throws repeatedly bounce off his receivers. It was him and Barkley, that was it. That said, I don’t see the Giants giving him 45M. Tannehill makes close to 30M and Jones is better than him. QB’s get paid, it is what it is.

  11. I get not watching giants games, I really do. It’s on iOS many of the people here didn’t watch them consistently like I have, and I totally understand why. They haven’t been good…at all. But if you watched them, you’d see he’s actually really good. He’s had no Oline or receivers, new and poor coaching each year, and no run game until this year.

    Obviously, he’s not worth 45 million, but that’s how negotiations work. You say a number that is too high, and then you hope to get what you truly want and expect in the middle.

  12. Not surprised that you idiots wouldn’t pay a guy who threw 15 TD’s when you conveniently, or should I say ignorantly, leave out the fact that he ran for another 7 TD’s. But let’s face it, anyone who would make that mistake would never have the ability to pay anyone, let alone one of the top 10 QB’s in the world.

  13. Yes he threw 15 tds. That was also part of throwing for the career high Tds for almost every pass catcher on his team. Think about that. Only slayton and Barkley didn’t achieve career high tds this year (other than golliday that didn’t play most of the year). He’s not worth 45 million, and he won’t get it, but that’s his team’s jumping off point.

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