Blackmon Arrested For DUI

[Elite]

Receiver Justin Blackmon, picked fifth overall by the Jacksonville Jaguars in April's draft, was arrested for aggravated DUI early Sunday in Stillwater, Okla., the Tulsa World reported.

The 22-year-old Blackmon was booked into the Payne County Jail at 10 a.m. CT, the newspaper reported. Under Oklahoma law, a driver's blood alcohol level must be .15 or higher to be charged with aggravated DUI.

It is the second DUI arrest for the former Oklahoma State star, who also was arrested in 2010 in Texas on a misdemeanor DUI charge. He was suspended one game by Oklahoma State as a result of that arrest.

The Jaguars traded up two spots to take the 6-foot-1, 207 pound Blackmon with the No. 5 pick in the 2012 draft, hoping to add a franchise receiver to an offense that ranked last in the league in 2011.

Blackmon caught 122 passes for 1,522 yards and 18 touchdowns for Oklahoma State last season. He had 111 receptions for 1,782 yards and 20 scores the previous year.

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Idiot.

 

[.infamous]

 

[Big Bid'Ness]

fromrofootballtalk

Blackmon’s arrest could impact the guarantees in his contract

It would have been worse for receiver Justin Blackmon to be arrested for aggravated DUI before the draft. It would have been better for it to happen after he signed his rookie contract.

It would have been best, of course, for it to never happen at all.

But happen it did, and now the question becomes whether it will have an impact on Blackmon’s contract negotiations. As the fifth overall pick in the draft, Blackmon previously was in line for a fully-guaranteed four-year deal, with a value falling south of Matt Kalil at No. 4 and north of Morris Claiborne at No. 6.

In theory, the Jags could decide to stand firm on the requisite one-year tender offer for the rookie minimum of $390,000, offering nothing more until Blackmon proves himself, on and off the field. That approach, however, inevitably would prompt Blackmon to hold out for the entire season and re-enter the draft in 2013.

The problem for both sides is that there’s not much the Jaguars can do to set the stage for the recovery of money, if Blackmon has additional issues in the future. The CBA provides for a partial forfeiture of a player’s signing bonus, if he is suspended for violating the substance-abuse policy (which covers DUI convictions). But the days of recovering large chunks of money in the event of an isolated act of misbehavior are long gone.

Given that the extent to which a rookie contract is guaranteed represents the only real item for negotiation in the fully-slotted first-round deals, it could be that the Jaguars insist on language that would extinguish any remaining salary guarantees, in the event that (for example) Blackmon has any future arrests or other violations of the substance-abuse policy. Article 4, Section 9(g) of the CBA expressly permits teams and players to “negotiate the circumstances under which the guarantee of any unearned Salary . . . may be voided.”

So while the top 16 players now each receive fully-guaranteed four-year deals, Blackmon may have to agree to language that permits future guarantees to go away, which in turn would give the Jaguars flexibility if they decide to move on from Blackmon before he finishes four full NFL seasons with the team.

Still, apart from recovering money already paid or erasing the guaranteed nature of money to be paid in the future, the Jaguars have a much greater interest in nurturing Blackmon into a great player and an even better citizen, especially since they moved up in round one to get him. They need to make their next decisions regarding Blackmon with that important overriding objective in mind.

 

[Rice18]

:lol:

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Not just DUI, aggravated DUI. Which is a felony.

Ouch.

 

[elcheato]

Average Joe serves jail time for this, but I doubt that happens with Blackmon.

 

[Big Bid'Ness]

lol

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Three times the legal limit.

 

[.infamous]

I'd be drinkin that much too if I had Blaine Gabbert as my QB

 

[Maestro]

I would be drinkin that much if I was in Jax too.

 

[NCSportsfan21]

What a dumbass, one time wasn’t enough? We’ve got to add a felony DUI.

Average joe probably wouldn’t serve time for this tho...

I’ve got a buddy that has 3 DUIs (two of them within a month of each other in the same county last year alone with driving revoked and resisting arrest) and he gets his license back in 6 weeks- he served 0 days and did 48 hrs community service and paid about 5 grand all together in fines and fees.

Blackmon will probably get 100 hrs community service and pay 20K lol.

 

[Pugz]

i worked with someone who travels across the country for work and has 18 total dui's and still has his liscense lol

 

[NCSportsfan21]

Holy hell.... 18?!

 

[Teagz]

He probably just flies now for work lol.

 

[Pugz]

nope the old man still drives...even in a comoany truck too lol

 

[NCSportsfan21]

Has anyone ever thought to put this guy in a treatment facility. He obviously has a serious problem.

 

[TTN2810]

Why was this thread bumped up? It's a month old.