Brandon Graham has been around so long that when he was a rookie he held out during training camp and no one batted an eye.
The year was 2010, before the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement was restructured, and Graham missed the first three days as the Eagles and his agent, Joel Segal, negotiated his first contract. It was commonplace for top draft picks to miss time then until the new CBA the following year eliminated most of the wiggle room in rookie deals.
When Graham finally landed at training camp at Lehigh University after signing a five-year, $21 million contract, he showed up in a new midnight blue Porsche.