Hopefully for the New York Jets, newly acquired CB Antonio Cromartie is better at handling opposing wide receivers than he is at handling his finances.
A league source tells NFL Network’s Jason La Canfora that the Jets are restructuring Cromartie’s $1.7 million salary for 2010 to make $500,000 available to him immediately as a bonus payment.
Apparently, Cromartie really needs it. He supposedly owes some $32,000 to an agent and another $25,000 or so in back child support (these things happen when you have seven children with six women and you are only 25-years old). And that’s just what’s been reported, we’d have to think that mismanaging money is an issue that results in far more problems than just these two occurrences.
According to La Canfora, Cromartie needs the money now and can’t or doesn’t want to wait until game checks start arriving in September. And he also says that the Jets have no plans to draw up an extension for the cornerback before the 2010 season so he’d be waiting regardless of a new deal.
Cromartie better really hope he regains his 2007 form. Otherwise, he’s headed for a financial mess that no amount of trading card show appearances will get him out of.
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