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Calvin Ridley had a message Friday for anyone worried the Tennessee Titans overpaid for him or that the wide receiver who missed essentially two NFL seasons won’t live up to his new four-year, $92 million deal.
“I’m a good player. I’m the type of player who deserves this contract,” Ridley said. “I’m going to say that. I’m a player that you want in the building, someone who’s going to work for your organization, who all their life as a kid, I rode city buses to high school just to go to school.”
Ridley spent 2023 in the same division as the Titans playing for the Jacksonville Jaguars. He had 76 catches for 1,016 yards and eight touchdowns, and he was really good against Tennessee.
He caught seven passes for 103 yards and two TDs in a rout in Jacksonville. He then had six receptions for 106 yards and a TD in a 28-20 loss in the regular-season finale in Nashville.
The Jaguars acquired him from Atlanta in November 2022 while he was suspended for the 2022 season for violating the NFL’s gambling policy.
That suspension came on the heels of the 2018 first-round pick out of Alabama sitting out the final two months of the 2021 season, an absence he explained in a social media post that read, “I need to step away from football at this time and focus on my mental well being.”
Now with his third different NFL team, Ridley said he knows he can put up better numbers. He also said there were things in Jacksonville that made him “uncomfortable” and played a part in him not signing a new deal with the Jaguars.
He also took the chance to share his side.
“I’m not proud of that at all. I wish I could just throw it away, but that’s what I have. That’s what I had,” Ridley said.
He noted that two seasons out, he not only gave Jacksonville a 1,000-yard season and eight TDs but didn’t miss a practice or game.
“I didn’t come late to nothing. I respected them and everybody in the building,” Ridley said. “I look at it as a win for me personally, when I have to think about it like that. If I…
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