"Vincent Jackson is not headed to New England," Schefter said in a Friday morning interview on Boston sports radio station WEEI. "You look at it and you say it makes sense, it's just not going to happen."

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"Vincent Jackson, You're going to have to spend roughly $50 million [on a contract extension] -- $9 [million], $10 million a year on a wide receiver that's one strike away from a yearlong suspension," he said. "On top of that, San Diego is adamant that it get back a second- and third-round pick, and New England has done a tremendous job stockpiling picks, I don't think is in the business of looking to unload those picks for a premium-price player when we may have all these picks in a draft that is incredibly rich in talent and in which there may be a rookie cap and you get basically these guys under contract at a bargain rate."