Jadeveon Clowney aiming for nine-figure, five-year deal

Jadeveon Clowney and the Texans did not come to terms on a long-term pact prior to yesterday’s deadline, which means that Clowney will need to sign his franchise tender at some point and wait until next year to try to get his mega-deal. And according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.com (video link), Clowney is, as expected, shooting for a contract in line with those that other top pass rushers have signed this year, if not higher. In other words, he is eyeing Frank Clark‘s five-year, $104.8M deal with the Chiefs and Demarcus Lawrence‘s five-year, $105M deal with the Cowboys as a baseline, but Schefter says that Houston has thus far been unwilling to match those contracts, let alone exceed them. It’s unclear just how far apart the two sides were when the deadline passed, but Sarah Barshop of ESPN.com suggests that the Texans are equally unlikely to pay market value for Clowney next year, even if he continues performing at a Pro Bowl level. In Barshop’s estimation, that is a mistake. The advanced metrics loved Clowne

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