Source: Parker tells Niners that Crabtree will re-enter draft Posted by Mike Florio on August 6, 2009 11:52 AM ET The situation in San Francisco between the 49ers and receiver Michael Crabtree is quickly going from bad to worse. Per a league source, agent Eugene Parker is telling the 49ers that Crabtree will sit out the season re-enter the draft in 2010, unless the team gives Crabtree what he wants. Of course, what Crabtree specifically wants isn't known, since Parker (as multiple sources tell us) still hasn't made a proposal. There's also a growing chorus of league insiders who are speaking out against the widely-believed effort by Parker to blow up the slotting process with Crabtree. Teams obviously would contend that the unwritten rules of draft-pick negotiation ritual should be honored; however, some of the agents who arguably would benefit from the introduction of chaos privately have described efforts to blow the curve as "inappropriate" and "unacceptable" and "wrong." And if Crabtree opts to re-enter the draft next year, the current thinking is that he wouldn't be the first receiver drafted. For now, the guy who is regarded as likely to be the first wideout (and possibly the first overall pick) is Illinois junior Arrelious Benn. Then again, if Crabtree is picked any higher than No. 10 after having a chance to engage in pre-draft workouts, he'd likely end up with more money than the slotting process currently would pay. After, of course, waiting a year to get it. Dumb move ...
He should just keep re-entering the draft and not signing until he eventually gets $450 million in 2020.
Sitting out a year didn't really work well for Mike Williams. He may want to reconsider this line of thinking.
True. And Mike Williams sat out a year because he wasn't allowed to enter the draft, not after he was drafted and offered a 10th-pick multi-million dollar contract. I can't see how sitting out would benefit Crabtree at all; where would he play for a year to improve his stock, the UFL? Arena League? Now I'm starting to see why this guy slipped from top-3 talent to 10th pick in the draft.
They said going into the draft that they were worried about the crowd he hung out with. Now I can see why
No way he holds out, he'll sign. He's just trying to squeeze every last dollar out of them. Too much could go wrong in the next year without a contract or a team. A little bad luck (injury) in that holdout year and then he has NO contract and no future in the NFL. Then he'll have the best hands of any grocery bagger in the nation.
LMAO! It does make the Raiders look like they knew what they were doing when they passed him in the draft. I am sure he will be a 49er by the end of preseason. Hopefully he is staying in game shape.
he will sign eventually, he has no leverage sitting out a year only hurts himself, if he re-enters the draft he will never go any higher then 10, and he would probably go much lower as many teams will right him off as unecesarry trouble, that in turn will make him probably get a worse contract
