After months of forwards and backwards, the Ravens finally paid their man, signing star quarterback Lamar Jackson to a reported five-year, $260 million contract extension. The deal makes the previous MVP the highest-paid participant in league history, eclipsing Jalen Hurts’ new cope with the Eagles. Josina Anderson is reporting that $185 million is assured. Only Deshaun Watson’s $230-million cope with Cleveland had extra assured cash in league historical past.
Baltimore introduced the transfer on social media with a video of Jackson chatting with the staff’s followers: “For the last few months, there’s been a lot of ‘he say, she say’. A lot of nail-biting, a lot of head-scratching going on. But for the next five years, it’s about the flock going on. Let’s go baby. Let’s go! Let’s go man, can’t wait to get there, can’t wait to be there. Can’t wait to light up M&T (Bank Stadium) for the next five years,” Jackson mentioned.
The extension brings to an finish one of the NFL’s greatest storylines of the offseason, with Jackson’s future in Baltimore extremely doubtful because of questionable strikes from the Ravens’ entrance workplace, plus Jackson himself asserting he requested a commerce from the group. All wounds may be healed and clearly, cash can deliver individuals collectively for a typical objective. No matter how slim it appeared at occasions, Jackson will solely play for Baltimore by means of at the very least the 2027 season.
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