Reigning Defensive Player of the Year is next in line for a pay raise.
As players packed up following the Raiders final minicamp, Khalil Mack took the opportunity to address his teammates on the defense and warned them to avoid troublesome situations that might arise before the start of training camp.
“You have a lottery ticket in your hand,” Mack said. “You can’t trick it off on doing something stupid in the town messing with this and that. It’s all about being focused and remembering that lottery ticket that you got in your hand is that opportunity that you have to play and do great things and represent your last name.”
Mack holds his own lottery ticket — a pending contract extension that will assuredly rocket the reigning Defensive Player of the Year into a whole new financial stratosphere as the Raiders continue to play “Who Wants To Be A (Multi) Millionaire?”
Derek Carr and Gabe Jackson cashed in this offseason. Logic — and general manager Reggie McKenzie — says that Mack will be next. The only question is when?
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