COSTA MESA, Calif. – As the Los Angeles Chargers concluded Day 2 of training camp on Thursday, running back Austin Ekeler doubled down on his frustrations with the state of running back contracts in the NFL, and continued the 'attack' on the franchise tag.
After practice, Ekeler continued to go in on franchise tag, the CBA and limiting the “control” that teams have on players.
“The [franchise tag] is in the CBA. The reason the CBA is what it is, is because we have fought and clawed and tried to continue to pull rights for ourselves as players,” Ekeler said. “You can go back to when there was no free agency, and when there was two-a-days, and now we have all these protections for ourselves.
“And how do we do that? Well, we have to come together. And when we have things that come up like [the running back situation], that's when we have to make sure we come together so we can protect ourselves.” After its recent negotiation in 2020, the current CBA is not up to be changed until 2030, so there is not much possibility for any significant change until then. But Ekeler still feels there are things that can be done in the short term, to ensure that players will be ready when it’s time to renegotiate.
“There's a ton that we can do and one is controlling the narrative,” Ekeler said. “There's a lot of media trying to justify why running backs aren't getting paid. They're using these general numbers. Well, this is what the running game efficiency does, according to the passing game efficiency. But it goes deeper than that, because we're not just numbers on a page. We're actual players and we all have different impacts on each team.
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