NFL rookies Malik Nabers and Jayden Daniels had to cancel a big money bet before their rookie seasons.
Drafted sixth overall by the New York Giants, Nabers recently revealed that he and former LSU teammate and Washington Commanders second overall selection Daniels made a $10,000 bet before the NFL Draft.
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“We have a bet for Rookie of the Year,” Nabers said in The pivot podcast.
“Whoever loses has to pay, I think it’s $10,000.”
However, the bet was quickly called off after Nabers and Daniels learned of the NFL’s strict gambling policies, as both revealed during their respective rookie minicamps on Friday.
“We were uneducated about gambling policy in the NFL,” Daniels said, according to the Washington Post. Nicki Jhabvala.
“We learned about this last night, he and I talked… and we obviously don’t want to get in trouble.”
The NFL’s 2022 gambling policy specifies that league personnel cannot place “private bets between teammates, family and friends, or others,” according to ESPN.
This specific element of the policy was not specified in the league’s revised policy last year.
If the former Tigers had chosen not to cancel the bet, there would be a possibility that they could have exploited a loophole in NFL rules to justify their decision.
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However, just as Nabers and Daniels escaped, they were only informed of these rules very recently.
Additionally, it was recently reported that the league’s gambling policy is not applicable to players until they are called up, according to Professional football talk.
Therefore, the article questioned whether bets made before the draft, like the one on Nabers and Daniels, should be allowed.
Whether or not this would have been allowed through this “potentially significant loophole,” as the PFT called it, is ultimately a moot point now that the bet has been called off.
Daniels has yet to sign a deal with the Commanders, while Nabers signed his rookie contract on Friday.
The star’s fully guaranteed deal is worth $29.2 million, according to ESPN Adam Schefter.
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“When I put my name on that paper, I was a little shaking,” Nabers said of signing his agreement.
“I was moved because the work was not over, but another stage in my life was completed.
“So for me, getting to this part of my life and this part of my journey was a pat on the back at that moment.”
What we already know
ONLY one matchup has been confirmed for the 2024 NFL regular season so far.
That’s the Week 1 matchup between the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers on Friday, September 6th.
The game will be played at Arena Corinthians in São Paulo, Brazil, and will be broadcast live on Peacock across the United States.
We also know the identity of the home teams in the three games in London, England, and one in Munich, Germany.
The Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings will host games at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, while the other home team in London will be the Jacksonville Jaguars at Wembley Stadium.
The Carolina Panthers are also confirmed for the game at the Allianz Arena in Munich.
Nabers now joins a Giants offense led by quarterback Daniel Jones, who signed a four-year, $160 million contract in 2023.
As for Daniels, he enters rookie minicamp as Washington’s presumptive starting quarterback.
Marcus Mariota, Jeff Driskel and Jake Fromm will compete for the backup spot, along with rookie Sam Hartman, who joined as an undrafted free agent from Notre Dame.
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