While it may be just 11th-hour rhetoric aimed at getting a deal done before Monday’s franchise tag deadline, multiple league sources familiar with stalled contract talks between the New York Giants’ Saquon Barkley and the Las Vegas Raiders’ Josh Jacobs indicated that both players are preparing to sit out of portions of training camp if extensions can’t be reached.
As of Thursday morning, sources familiar with talks said there was little extension progress for Barkley and Jacobs, and that significant strides would need to be made for any chance of deals before Monday’s 4 p.