 | Jets all-out to get Tomlinson to sign |
MARK CANNIZZARO
Free agent running back LaDainian Tomlinson is at the Jets training facility for a visit, and the team is doing all it can to get his name on a contract before he leaves New Jersey.
"For that to ever turn into a signing, it's gonna have to be if everything lines up with him, us, economics, medical, role," GM Mike Tannenbaum said this morning on WFAN.
"I think he would bring great leadership to our organization, but we'll see how it goes today."
Fanhouse.com reports the Jets are willing to give Tomlinson the same two-year, $5 million deal the Chiefs gave Thomas Jones, who could not get that offer from the Jets.
"(The Jets) may be willing to move upwards to $3.5 million a year for Tomlinson in a contract loaded with incentives," the report says.
The report says "Tomlinson has already told the Jets that he wants to think things over, travel back home to visit with his wife, LaTorsha, and pray over all options."
But the Jets are trying to avoid that.
"We want this guy, and when we want a player, we typically go get the player,'' a Jets source told Fanhouse. "We have every intention to get him signed before he leaves.''
Fanhouse reports several details on Tomlinson's visit, including a gift basket for his first child (expected this summer) and dinner at Trump National Golf Club.
Tomlinson was scheduled to fly back home to San Diego, but the dinner plans prevented him from catching a flight to the West Coast. The running back’s itinerary beyond Friday night had not yet been determined, Jets spokesman Bruce Speight told The Associated Press.
Tannenbaum said Tomlinson is familiar with the Jets' system having worked with offensive coordinator Brain Schottenheimer when he was an assistant in San Diego.
"He would give us that change of pace back after you pound it and pound it with Shonn (Greene)," the Jets source told Fanhouse writer Thomas George. "If LaDainian stays healthy, you put him in some of the same situations our other backs were in last year with this offensive line and you will see even bigger production."
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