If you’re a Washington Redskins executive or coach, you might want to look away. Cornerback Josh Norman decided to take a little adventure before training camp begins this summer and made the choice to run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. Only, apparently, that wasn’t dangerous enough.
So Norman decided to jump one.
Redskins CB Josh Norman is out here JUMPING OVER bulls in Pamplona 😧 pic.twitter.com/QzZhg02Any
— ESPN (@espn) July 11, 2019
Needless to say, Norman made it and is fine or otherwise you’d be reading a very different story. He was pretty pumped after making the jump, as any phenomenal athlete would be, and posted about it on his Instagram.
It’s a spectacular thing to do and very cool. But if you’re head coach Jay Gruden and the Redskins, you have to be experiencing plenty of feelings today and none of them are good.
Norman is in the fourth year of his five-year, $75 million contract with Washington. He’s due to make $11 million this season with a $14 million cap hit. For a guy of Norman’s talents, that’s not a bad deal at all in the current market, but only if he plays. If he’d caught a pant leg on that bull’s horn and tore his knee, that could be a real problem.
The deal came with $50 million in guaranteed cash and the Redskins have already paid that. If they were forced to cut Norman now, if he’d hurt himself or tore his leg off, they’d be on the hook for a $6 million cap hit. But, luckily, he made it. He’s fine and everything’s going to be OK.
What you will see now, I think, is more detailed contract stipulations that teams have never even conceived of before. Because of silly and ridiculous accidents in the past, I’m sure there are fireworks provisions (thanks to Jason Pierre-Paul) and plenty of no motorcycles rules (that’s on you, Ben Roethlisberger) in every new contract signed. Now they’ll have to put in clauses forbidding running with the bulls or jumping any and all animals.
Luckily for Norman, he got his bovine leap in under the wire.
