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Deadlines Spur Action: Hendrickson and McLaurin Get Paid (Kind Of)

Two big NFL hold-ins ended with deals—what’s real, what’s fluff, and what it tells us about their futures.

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Andrew Brandt
August 26, 2025

Hey guys, welcome to the Daily Dose. Hope you're doing well.

Thanks for the kind comments I got from some of you about what I experienced last week—not even being around Villanova Law, which starts this week—but hearing from so many staff, friends, and colleagues who were there hiding under desks during an active shooter alert. It turned out to be a cruel hoax that was happening around the country last Thursday. It was startling, and certainly much more so for my colleagues than for me.

Back to the NFL. I want to talk about a couple of deals that got done. You know my saying: deadlines spur action—and that happened here with two veterans who had been holding in.

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