But that said, I don’t think that a controversial draft pick should become a contract holdout.
Yes, John Elway did it. But the lesson from Elway isn’t that he did it and got away from it, it’s that after a long, successful career, people still complain about it. The distilled Elway career is “Broncos, Superbowls, the Play, and being a holdout.”
So, after winning back to back Superbowls, you still can’t shake the fact that you started your career as a whiner. Think about it, Tim Tebow.