Tarell Brown is angry and he has two million reasons why. The 49ers cornerback is in the last year of his contract and was set to make $2.925 million. In order to collect $2 million of that, he had to attend offseason workouts with the 49ers. Unaware of this clause in his contract, Brown worked out on his own in Texas. Unfortunately, that was a $2 million misunderstanding.
“No one wants to leave money on the table,” Brown said Thursday. “If I would have known the clauses in my contract — that’s what agents get paid to do, to orchestrate the contract and to let you know what you can and can’t do as far as workouts and OTAs and things of that sort. That’s what he got paid to do. He didn’t do that, so in my opinion you have to be let go. We all are held accountable for our actions. This is part of the business.” Immediately upon finding out about this, Brown fired his agent Brian Overstreet.
Brown is not the first victim of agent’s negligence. Earlier this year, Baltimore defensive end Elvis Dumervil became involved in “FaxGate”. Dumervil had a deal with his original the Denver Broncos, but his agent Marty Magid did not fax over the reworked contract by the deadline forcing the Broncos to cut Dumervil. Magid was fired shortly after and Dumervil signed with the Ravens.
