He said San Francisco offered him a pay cut to play with the team in 2024, which he did not think was fair.
“[The 49ers] extended an offer to me of $6 million for a one-year deal with incentives to go up to $8 [million],” Armstead, 30, said on his podcast “Third and Long .”
“When they sent that over, I did feel extremely disrespected. I don’t feel that that level of compensation is near the type of player that I am.
“Not even just the type of player that I am, what I have committed to the game, what I have committed to my team, what I have committed to the organization and my community. I didn’t feel like it was representative of who I am as a player and a person.”
“It’s crazy how, being in this position, you’ll start to even question yourself a little bit,” Armstead said. “For a split second, I was like, ‘Dang, am I really not like that?’ No, ain’t no way, bruh.”
The new Jaguar, though, did say he anticipated this.
“Heading into this season, I kind of felt like I might play myself out of being in San Francisco,” Armstead said. “I kinda had that sense and feeling a bit heading into the season that it might be a possibility.
“I understand the business of football and I can see it. It would be hard to have two $20 million defensive tackles and a $30 million defensive end and all this talent on our team; it’s an abundance of talent.”
He now joins a Jaguars line that features nose tackle DaVon Hamilton and defensive end Roy Robertson-Harris.
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