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Before joining our Access Vikings team, Dan Wiederer covered Atlantic Coast Conference basketball for the Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer and was named North Carolina's top sports columnist in 2010. His previous reporting experience includes covering the Chicago Bears. Follow him on Twitter @StribDW.
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About that Jackson tender
Posted by: under Vikings, NFC, Tarvaris Jackson Updated: March 4, 2010 - 4:22 PM
There was some confusion on Wednesday when the NFL's website reported restricted free agent Tarvaris Jackson was tendered a contract at a third-round level for the 2010 season. On the surface this didn't make sense.
Jackson had been tendered a contract that would call for the Vikings to receive a draft pick in the round in which the quarterback was taken if he signed elsewhere. It's called an "original-round tender." Jackson was a second-round pick in 2006, not a third-rounder. So what happened and why did it end up being reported as a third-rounder? Blame the whole thing on Fred Evans.
The defensive tackle, who like Jackson is a restricted free agent, had a second-round tender placed on him. The issue is that Evans was drafted in the seventh round by Miami in 2006. NFL spokesman Dan Masonson e-mailed us with the league's rule on this:
"If a club gives a second-round tender to a player selected below the second round, it must give any of its RFAs who were selected in the second round at least the 'second-round tender' to be eligible for second-round compensation. An 'original-round tender' in such circumstances to an RFA selected in the second round will result in third-round compensation."
In other words, the Vikings could have put a second-round tender on Jackson, too, but that would have cost them $1.8 million for the 2010 season if Jackson stuck around. That's what Evans will be due to make. The "original-round tender" will mean the Vikings owe Jackson $1.2 million.
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