We’ll never know if Derek Carr would have actually hung up his cleats if he would have been forced to continue his career somewhere other than Las Vegas, not after Carr inked a three-year extension on Wednesday that will run through the 2025 season.
Carr, sharing a conversation he had with his agent during contract talks, said that that’s exactly what he would have done if he wasn’t going to stay with the Raiders, who drafted him with the 36th pick in 2014. Fortunately for Carr, it never came to that, as the Raiders have made Carr one of the NFL’s highest-paid players.
“I’ve only wanted to be a Raider,” Carr, donning a Raiders cap and black shirt, told the media shortly after signing his extension. “I told my agent, ‘I’m either going to be a Raider or I’m going to be playing golf. I don’t want to play anywhere else.’ … I was dead serious when I said that. I had one year left on my contract. If it was one year, it was going to be one year. Thankfully, it’ll be four more.”
Carr is keeping his day job, but he shared that he recently made a hole in one during a recent golf outing, albeit no one else was there to see it. We’ll have to…
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