Jonas Knox

And all it does is move the timeline in terms of what it is that you have going on with C.J.

Stroud.

Fifth year option.

It's standard.

So it's not like this is earth moving.

The bigger news, the bigger story would have been if they did something different than what they did.

I mean, honestly, if that's if we're going to have a lead for C.J.

Stroud in this moment, the bigger story would have been if they didn't exercise that fifth year option.

And what was it that they did?

Did they just redo the deal altogether?

No.

Or are they looking at it from the standpoint of we're not doing anything right now?

We're just going to figure out where we go with this?

I think that this obviously shows that there's confidence in C.J.

Stroud.

And again, like I said, the bigger deal would have been if they didn't exercise the extension.

Yeah, it makes all the sense in the world.

It's not a surprise that they picked up the fifth-year option.

I think that

What this does do, though, is illustrate how massive this next season is for him.