Two years ago when the Carolina Panthers removed the franchise tag from their All-Pro CB Josh Norman, Patrick Peterson tweeted him to say: ”Know your worth…”
This created a firestorm of back and forth texts between the two rival cornerbacks.
Months later in the summer of 2016, after Norman had been signed by the Redksins to a $75M contract and had just been rated the #1 CB on Madden Football, three spots ahead of Peterson who was ranked at #4, Peterson tweeted his disdain for the ranking to Norman and perpetuated the same argument he had with Richard Sherman, that “I don’t get beat 1 on 1 because I am a man corner, not a zone corner.