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Jalen Ramsey says he put a $5,000 cap on his NFL rookie dinner after hearing stories about $30,000 tabs
“When it got time for the rookie dinner, I just came out straight. It was in the DB meeting after practice, and I stood up in front of everybody before we left. I was like, ‘Look, y'all boys. We gonna do the DB dinner tonight at Ruth's Chris. I got the private room set up and all that. I know how this shit work. I done read some of the stories about people paying $20,000 $30,000 a whole lot of money. Y'all know how the money work. It don't just drop in your account as soon as you sign. Y'all know how this shit work now’”
“I ain't really got it. I got it, but I ain't got it like y'all trying to make it seem like I got it. I done did the math, y'all. I got the Ruth's Chris menu. That's how much the most expensive steak is. That's how much sweet potato casserole is, and how much the cream corn is. I'm plating it out”
“I'm like, ‘Look, I done did the math, y'all boys. So for each of us to go in there, enjoy a dinner, main course, sides, dessert, and a little something to drink, it's gonna cost me about five out of my pocket. I'm willing to pay five’”
“I went with them, because I heard the stories were. They trying to go in there and get the Louis XIII bottles and take them home, and take two to-go plates for their family back home”
“I said, ‘Look, we're gonna go in there, we gonna have a good time, we gonna eat good, I'm gonna pay that five, and then we out. If there's any problems with that, I ain't gotta go. I can call the lady right now. I'll put five on y'all tab. Y'all go in there, and once that five up, y’all done. The rest gonna be on y'all’”
“Everybody was like, ‘Man, we ain't gonna try to do that to you, little bro.’ I said, ‘Alright, bet. I'll see y'all at eight o'clock.’ It turned out just like that. It didn't go over $5,000. We enjoyed ourselves. Nobody took advantage of the opportunity”
“At the end of the day, it made us closer as a secondary. Like, ‘Alright, little bro came through for us. He showed us a good time.’ And for me, it was like, them boys respected what I said, what I laid out”