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Julio Jones and the Atlanta Falcons have yet to agree on a long-term contract extension, but the superstar wide receiver isn’t sweating it.
“My agent [Jimmy Sexton] is in the process of them talking about it. It hasn’t came to me. I’m good. I’m comfortable with how everybody’s doing it,” he told Vaughn McClure of ESPN.com. “There’s no pressure on my end and none on their end. If they’re going to get it done, we’ll get it done.”
Jones has two years and $21 million remaining on his contract, though as McClure noted, “Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff vowed to revisit Jones’ contract this offseason after the team adjusted Jones’ deal before last season.”
His total five-year deal has Jones at 11th among wide receivers in average yearly salary, though he isn’t concerned with those comparisons.
“Me, personally, I don’t really care about as far as being the highest-paid receiver, man,” he said. “It’s a number. We’ve got some other guys on the team. If we can do it in a way to get all the other guys to stay on the team… it’s a lot of ways you can do money.”
Nobody would bat an eye if Jones was the highest paid receiver in the NFL, however. The 30-year-old star is a six-time Pro Bowler and two-time first-team All-Pro who has recorded at least 1,100 yards in six of the past seven seasons and hasn’t dipped below 1,400 receiving yards since 2013.
He’s a dynamic playmaker for the Falcons, and he’ll be paid as such. It’s a matter of when, not if, though Jones may stay away from the team’s voluntary workouts this offseason while a new agreement is being negotiated.
“I’m just working on me right now,” he said. “I’ve got a great relationship with the organization. I’m just working on me. That’s it. It’s no set time where I need to be in-house. Mandatory stuff, I’ll be there. As long as I’m training, they understand it.”
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