Tennessee Titans: Vic Beasley continues to headline training camp
Tennessee Titans’ new outside linebacker Vic Beasley has yet to report to training camp and continues to be the biggest story in training camp so far.
Vic Beasley is the biggest story of the Tennessee Titans’ training camp. It’s not because of his performance or arriving super jacked, it’s because he hasn’t shown up to training camp yet.
It would make sense if he wanted to opt-out of the 2020 NFL season due to COVID-19 and that’s why he hasn’t shown up but he hasn’t shown any indication that he plans to opt-out of the season.
If his absence has anything to do with COVID-19, then I’d assume that he would say that. With him not associating his absence with the disease, he could end up costing himself a lot of money.
He could lose part of his $6 million signing bonus along with his $9.5 million he’s expected to make this year. Over The Cap’s Jason Fitzgerald explains that Beasley is losing money by the day he doesn’t report.
"“The new CBA agreement, in an effort to avoid holdouts, placed mandatory fines, compared to the old system of voluntary fines, on veteran players for late reporting, Fitzgerald explains. “Beasley fits in the category of a UFA signing so he should lose $50,000 per day that he remains away from training camp.“In addition Beasley, if he misses 6 days of training camp, can trigger a breach that can allow the Titans to begin the process of recovering part of his $6 million signing bonus. This is not mandatory but can be as high as 15% for the initial breach and 25% for the entire preseason. That would add up to $900,000 for the first breach and $60,000 per day thereafter up to $2.25M over the course of camp.”"
That’s a lot of dough that Beasley is missing out on and his absence could cost him an opportunity to play the 2020 season.
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Beasley was supposed to report on July 28 but has not been seen at a Titans facility. With some Titans fans excited for Beasley’s addition to the linebacker core, this has to worry fans if they’ll get to see Beasley in two-tone blue this fall.