Innumerable youngsters try their hardest to make their way into the NFL. They work incredibly hard during their school and college days to somehow grab attention of any of the NFL franchises.
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After all this, even for the most talented of the stars, the NFL draft is an extremely nervous time. However, the nerves do settle in and the sense of achievement kicks in once any player is roped in by an franchise.
While it is a massive achievement to make your way to any team’s roster, that’s just the starting point. Many don’t go beyond that. Moreover, if you, a new recruit, is forced to pay more than $322,000 for a team dinner, it might put you further down and make life extremely difficult.
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The $322,000 dinner bill for Drake Jackson was just a prank
Something similar reportedly happened with 49ers rookie Drake Jackson a few days ago. There were reports that Drake had to pay $322,391 for dinner. For a rookie, who signed a $5.8 million 4-year deal this year, that is a massive-massive amount to spend on one dinner.
However, it all turned out to be nothing but just a prank which was played on the rookie by his mates. 49ers veteran Arik Armstead issued clarification on the incident, claiming that the bill was actually just for 7,500 out of which, him and two other veterans paid $1,000 each and the rest $4500 was split among the rookies.
Y’all silly if you thought a dinner can cost 300k . It was a prank. The waitress went overboard . The dinner was 7500 me and 2 other vets gave 1k towards it . The rooks split 4500. We had a great time too. I had good vets as a young player I would never do a rookie like that .
— Arik Armstead (@arikarmstead) December 20, 2022
“Y’all silly if you thought a dinner can cost 300k . It was a prank. The waitress went overboard . The dinner was 7500 me and 2 other vets gave 1k towards it. The rooks split 4500,” Arik wrote on Twitter.
“We had a great time too. I had good vets as a young player I would never do a rookie like that,” he further added. Actually, it wasn’t that hard to understand that all this was a prank after taking a closer look at the bill.
It suggested that the meals cost $7600 but an additional $200,000 were added to the bill as gratuity charges. Yes, the math is not adding up because it was all just a harmless prank.
