Samuel Ends Holdout

ESPN.com is reporting that final franchise-tagged holdout Asante Samuel of the Patriots has ended his holdout and will sign a one-year 7.79 million dollar contract with the New England Patriots sometime today.  Samuel, who has missed the entirety of training camp and the first three games of the preseason during a much-publicized contract holdout, will finally report to the team sometime this week, at which point he will have to pass Bill Bellichick’s conditioning test before he can practice with the team.  No word has yet been released on whether or not Samuel will play in the final preseason game for the Patriots, or if he will be available for the Patriots regular season opener versus the New York Jets.

No details of Samuel’s contract have yet been released.  It will be interesting to see if Samuel was able to broker a deal like the one Lance Briggs got from Chicago, in which it was stipulated that Briggs would sign the one year tender this season on the condition that the Bears do not tag him as their franchise player next year.  If Samuel got a similar contract stipulation, then the holdout was worth it.  If not, one has to wonder whether Samuel really gained anything from his holdout.

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Posted in Uncategorized on August 27, 2007

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