The Facts:
Jones-Drew skipped the team's first 38 days of training camp before finally reporting last week, incurring about $1.6M in fines as a result of the holdout. Jones-Drew, set to make $4.45 this season, will end up being docked a little less than $800,000, according to a league source, in an arrangement brokered between the team and agent Adisa Bakari to end the holdout.
Reported by CBSSports.com
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
According to CBSSports.com's Jason La Canfora, the deal was struck before Jones-Drew reported, and there was regular contact between some team officials like general manager Gene Smith and the star running back through his prolonged absence. Jones-Drew, the NFL's leading rusher in 2011, wanted the team to improve on the five-year, $31-million deal he signed in 2009; new owner Shahid Khan did not budge and ultimately maintained high ground in the fine negotiation as well -- often teams waive a greater portion of such fines when star players stay away. ... Jones-Drew is in line for third-down work in today's game against the Vikings.
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