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Lamar Jackson Denies ‘I Need $’ Picture is Any Kind of Message to Ravens

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According to a report, Lamar Jackson is currently ghosting the Baltimore Ravens when they send contract extension offers to the quarterback

LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 25: Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson (8) before the Baltimore Ravens vs Los Angeles Rams football game on November 25, 2019, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, CA. (Photo by Jevone Moore/Icon Sportswire)

While Lamar Jackson set the internet on fire with speculation by changing his social media photos on Saturday, the Ravens quarterback said its not what you think.

Jackson changed his Instagram profile photo and Twitter header to a picture of a gold grill engraved with the phrase “I Need $”, which many suspected was a message to the Ravens amid his ongoing contract negotiations with the team.

Lamar Jackson spoke to USA Today to clear the air, claiming that the pictures had nothing to do with his contract discussions. Jackson explained that the photo was a reference to the movie “How High”, from which a character wears a the grill.

He simply watched the movie and though it was funny, so he added it to his social media profiles. There was no ulterior motive to the photos, Jackson said, and he didn’t understand why people read so much into it.

“I don’t know why people are blowing it up,” Jackson told Deen during his fourth annual ‘Funday with LJ’ event. “I just saw Bleacher Report post it. They just take anything that’s posted on social media and just blow it up, and try to think for you. I don’t take it too seriously.

“They’re making it seem like I’m talking to the Ravens when I’m not. Our contract discussion is going on already. But it ain’t about that though.”

Jackson’s  contract extension and its so-far unresolved status has been a dominant storyline in Baltimore this offseason. Of course people are going to read into a social media picture change. Does Lamar really think we’re that gullible?

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