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NFL Kansas City Chiefs Jersey such. As it stands, the No. 4 pick in the 2016 will earn $3.85 million in base salary this season, and his $6.2 million average annual salary ranks 10th behind , and .When the team opens training camp on July 27 in Oxnard, it's unclear if Elliott will be there. Over the weekend, Pro Football Talk reported that the running back when his coaches and teammates convene in California. On Monday, .com's Ian Rapoport said that Elliott hadn't " " to skip camp and that "all options were still on the table."Yahoo.com's Charles Robinson wrote last week that while Elliott hadn't made a decision on whether to skip camp ... "yet," the running back " ." There's more: "If Cowboys aren't proactive about a deal, I think this could go
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