Running back Josh Jacobs has a contract offer from the Las Vegas Raiders that will pay him $10.091 million for the 2023 NFL season. Jacobs has not signed the deal or practiced with the Raiders since the end of the 2022 campaign.

But could recent running-back deals make Jacobs more likely to sign now?

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The contract offer wouldn’t make the former Alabama ball-carrier the NFL’s highest-paid running back this season, although Jacobs would be tied for third-highest base salary among running backs, behind the $10.85 million of the Cleveland Browns’ Nick Chubb and the $10.5 million of the Tennessee Titans’ Derrick Henry.

The one-year deal wouldn’t offer the league’s 2022 rushing leader long-term security or make him among the league’s highest-paid players. In terms of total cash for 2023, the contract would tie him for 213th on the NFL’s payroll.

It also might be the best that Jacobs is going to get this time around.

Monday brought news of two other former Pro Bowl running backs who weren’t in NFL training camps with contract agreements between Dalvin Cook and the New York Jets and Ezekiel Elliott and the New England Patriots.

For the previous four seasons, Cook ran for at least 1,100 yards, produced at least 1,300 yards from scrimmage and made the Pro Bowl in each. That didn’t keep the Minnesota Vikings from releasing him with three seasons remaining on a five-year, $63 million contract. NFL Network reported Cook would sign a one-year contract with the Jets that would pay him $8.6 million if he meets all the incentives contained in it.

Like Jacobs, Elliott is a former first-team All-Pro and NFL rushing leader. But after he dipped to 876 rushing yards in 2022, the Dallas Cowboys released him with four seasons remaining on a six-year, $90 million contract. NFL Network reported Elliott would sign a one-year contract with the Patriots that would pay him $6 million if he meets all the incentives contained in it.

If the Raiders rescinded their one-year, $10.091 million offer to Jacobs, making him a free agent 23 days before the season kicks off, could he hope to do better on the open market?

Las Vegas signed running backs Damien Williams and Darwin Thompson last week to join a position group currently headed by Zamir White, Jacobs’ understudy as a rookie last season, and steadied by veterans Brandon Bolden and Ameer Abdullah, a former Homewood High School star.

In the Raiders’ 34-7 victory over the San Francisco 49ers in their preseason opener on Sunday, White ran for 43 yards and one touchdown on 13 carries. Las Vegas totaled 120 yards and two touchdowns on the ground.

Raiders general manager Dave Ziegler told SiriusXM NFL Radio that Las Vegas still hoped to get Jacobs signed.

“With Josh, it’s still working through the process there,” Ziegler said. “Great player. Obviously, we want him to be a Raider, and we’d like to get him here sooner than later. We’re encouraged that we’ll come and find some common ground to get him here sooner than later.”

The contract impasse began when Las Vegas used its franchise tag to prevent Jacobs from becoming a free agent in March. The deadline for the team and ball-carrier to work out a multi-year deal to replace the franchise-tag tender passed in July with no resolution.

In March, three running backs received the franchise tag, which came with a collectively bargained payday of $10.091 million for the 2023 season. None of the players got a long-term contract before the July 17 deadline.

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After the deadline, a team can offer only a one-year contract to a franchise-tagged player.

Tony Pollard signed his franchise tender from the Cowboys and will play the 2023 season for $10.091 million.

Saquon Barkley did not sign his tender from the New York Giants and, like Jacobs, seemed at an impasse. But Barkley didn’t miss a training-camp practice after New York adjusted the franchise-tag offer to include $909,000 in incentives, which could make the contract worth $11 million, and agreed to pay $2 million of the money as an immediate signing bonus.

Before the Raiders’ preseason game on Sunday, KLAS-TV in Las Vegas recorded Ziegler as he signed autographs for fans.

One fan told Ziegler to give Jacobs “at least 11 or 12 million.”

“I wouldn’t have a problem with that,” Ziegler said.

The fan added, “Put some incentives in there. He’ll come.”

“I’m with you,” Ziegler replied. “We’ll get it done.”

Las Vegas will play the second of its three preseason games at 8 p.m. CDT Saturday, when the Raiders visit the Los Angeles Rams.

Las Vegas will kick off the 2023 regular season on Sept. 10 against the Denver Broncos.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.