During the bye week the Jacksonville Jaguars secured one of their young stars, handing Telvin Smith a four year contract extension worth $44 million. It was a long deserved contract for Smith, who many including myself, weren’t sure if the Jaguars would re-sign. It wasn’t that Smith wasn’t worth re-signing, he absolutely is, but the teams that general manager Dave Caldwell cut his teeth with never valued weakside linebackers. Thankfully, either VP of football operations Tom Coughlin or Caldwell didn’t agree with that method and locked Smith up for the next four seasons.
“It is more stressful right now then having to deal with it when I actually had to go through signing it,” Smith said on Monday when he was asked if he was relieved to get the deal over with.