Shaquill Griffin, clutching his cellphone to his ear and grinning, didn’t have to say anything. His twin brother, Shaquem, knew right away, from across the living room. The physical reaction was undeniable.
“I kind of dropped to the ground,” Shaquill recalled. “My brother was on the couch, looking at me crazy because obviously my eyes start to water up. So he knew what happened.”
What got Griffin to fall to his knees were four simple words from his agent, Buddy Baker: You’re a Jacksonville Jaguar. And with that, in a year as tough as any has been in a decade for free agents in NFL, the former Seahawk Pro-Bowler sealed a move back across the country to his home state and scored the sort of second-contract payday that every player enters the pros looking to get.