Quinnen Williams

Like Darnold, Williams didn’t hold out very long and his demands were about the minutiae of his contract language. For Williams, it was all about deferred payment of his $21.5 million signing bonus. He wanted all of his signing bonus to be paid in the first year of his contract instead of over two years because Alabam state income tax – where Williams legally resided until the end of 2019 – is a lot lower than New Jersey – where he’d live in 2020.

The Jets didn’t initially want to give Williams all his money upfront and offered him one of the lowest deferred payment options of any pick in the top 10 – the Jets drafted Williams third overall. In the end, the two sides came to an agreement that gave him 75 percent of his bonus in 2019 and 25 percent in 2020. He only missed one day of training camp.