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Phillip Rivers Will Let His Current Contract Run Out Before Resigning

Phillip Rivers will not sign a contract extension until his current deal runs out at the end of the 2015 season. The other elite Quarterbacks taken in the 2004 draft (most notable Eli Manning and Ben Rothlisberger) have been signed to extensions before their current deals expired. However, Rivers who has a large family is not as ready to sign on with the San Diego Chargers since there are lots of rumors the team will relocate to Los Angeles some time in the near future.

Adding fuel to the fire is the fact that the Chargers are bringing in Marcus Mariota, a prized QB prospect in the coming NFL draft, for a pre draft workout. The Chargers currently hold the 17th pick in the first round and would need to trade up to have a shot at drafting him. That has led to rumors that the Chargers would deal the 11-year veteran to the Tennessee Titans to try and move all the way up to the second pick.

However, if Rivers is unwilling to relocate his family to L.A., just up the road from San Diego, it would seem he would not welcome a trade across the country. He would have few options, but after 11 years he has made enough money to retire from football all together. Any team trading for Rivers would be assuming a lot of risk.

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"What we've established here with my growing family is hard to recreate. It's hard to up and recreate that. Rivers told Pro Football Talk Rivers about uprooting his family. "I know that moves are part of life. But that certainly is fair to say that [not being sold on moving to Los Angeles] is part of it. The good thing is I'm not under contract in a year where we'd potentially be in Los Angeles."

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