No, I think he deserves his money. But he has to know how to push his leverage best.
Eagles and Jalen Hurts reached agreement on a five-year, $255 million extension, including $179.304 million guaranteed, per source.
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Lamar just need to go to the jets.. if the jets was willing to take on Rodgers salary they might as well get a person 14 yrs younger who is more athletic and pay him that money.. they guarantee a longer career span with the young dude.. Lamar to the jets make it happen
I don’t even like the jets
I don’t even like the jets
I like Hurts but no player, especially a QB, should be making more than Mahomes right now. Mahomes' agent & the Chiefs should be in some serious, sincere discussions.
It's not about what he should be making...
#1 This goes in cycles.. he'll only be the highest paid QB until the next top 10 QB gets paid
#2 He's taking less so the Chiefs could afford free agents and their 2nd and 3rd best players, Kelce and Chris Jones
Tom Brady wouldn't have as many as rings if he didn't do the same thing
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Right and he will probably renegotiate before the 10 years is up.
Extending it that long gives the team more flexibility against the cap.
You know how it is in the NFL the last quarterback signed gets the most Money. If you in the top five you should get the most.
Jalen Hurts extension: How Eagles set up deal similar to Patrick Mahomes' record-setting contract with Chiefs
The Eagles -- and Hurts -- followed the Chiefs' successful blueprint for a QB contract
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By Jeff Kerr
6 hrs ago•5 min read
Jalen Hurts is the highest-paid player in NFL history at $51 million a year, thanks to the record-setting contract that will keep him with the Philadelphia Eagles until the 2028 season. The Eagles showcased their financial commitment to Hurts by giving the MVP runner-up $179.304 million guaranteed -- the second-largest guaranteed money to a player in NFL history.
The final terms of the Hurts contract is five years at $255 million, an average annual value at $51 million. The deal included $110 million fully guaranteed at signing the contract and $126.5 million fully guaranteed to the quarterback by March of 2024. Hurts also has a signing bonus of $23.294 million for the 2023 season, giving him financial stability with the Eagles for the next six seasons.
While the Hurts deal is massive, the Eagles set up the contract to keep a talented roster intact to aid their franchise quarterback. The Kansas City Chiefs did the same when Patrick Mahomes signed his massive $450 million extension after winning the Super Bowl in the 2020 offseason. The franchise has been to two Super Bowls since (winning Super Bowl LVII in 2023).
The Chiefs wrote the blueprint for huge quarterback contracts, and the Eagles followed it. Here's a look at how the Hurts and Mahomes deals are similar, and why the Eagles were set up to win with their franchise quarterback making big money.
The cap hit
Hurts has an unbelievable salary cap hit for 2023 and the first three seasons of his extension, thanks to Eagles general manager Howie Roseman having a signing bonus structure that significantly favors the team's salary cap hit in future seasons. Per ESPN, this will be Hurts' cap hit over the next four years.| YEAR | CAP HIT |
|---|---|
| 2023 | $6.15 million |
| 2024 | $13.56 million |
| 2025 | $21.77 million |
| 2026 | $31.77 million |
The signing bonus of $63 million guaranteed certainly helped that cap hit over that four-year stretch, along with Mahomes' 2023 and 2024 salary and workout bonus becoming fully guaranteed over the life of the deal -- a total value of $86.38 million (and $223.3 million in dead cap).
While Hurts' contract is still being unraveled, the structure of how Mahomes' deal is set up based on the low cap hit is similar. There's a reason why the Chiefs have gone 40-10 with three conference championship game appearances, two Super Bowl appearances and a Super Bowl title in the three seasons since Mahomes signed his deal.
Eagles players signed through 2024
Philadelphia has a tremendous amount of assets signed through at least the 2024 season. The Eagles certainly have their core players -- and future starters -- lined up for the next two years.| PLAYER | STARTING POSITION | YEAR SIGNED THROUGH |
|---|---|---|
| Jalen Hurts | QB | 2029 |
| A.J. Brown | WR | 2027 |
| DeVonta Smith | WR | 2026 |
| Darius Slay | CB | 2026 |
| James Bradberry | CB | 2026 |
| Dallas Goedert | TE | 2026 |
| Jordan Mailata | LT | 2026 |
| Lane Johnson | RT | 2027 |
| Haason Reddick | EDGE | 2025 |
| Josh Sweat | DE | 2025 |
| Avonte Maddox | CB | 2025 |
| Jake Elliott | K | 2025 |
| Landon Dickerson | LG | 2025 |
| Nakobe Dean | LB | 2026 |
| Cam Jurgens | RG | 2026 |
| Jordan Davis | DT | 2027 |
| Reed Blankenship | S | 2025 |
The Chiefs had several of their key starters signed over the next two seasons after Mahomes signed his extension. Travis Kelce, Tyreek Hill, Frank Clark, Tyrann Mathieu, Mitchell Schwartz, Chris Jones, Juan Thornhill, Anthony Hitchens, Derrick Nnadi, Mecole Hardman, Clyde Edwards-Helaire and Willie Gay were the notable ones. Fourteen of the 22 starters were signed with the Chiefs for the next two seasons before Mahomes' cap hit increased -- and the Chiefs still were able to improve the roster and win a Super Bowl in Year 3 of the Mahomes deal.
After a Super Bowl appearance in 2022, there's a good chance the Eagles can repeat -- or top -- their success over the next two seasons.
Future ways to create cap space
To keep the talented roster in Kansas City, the Chiefs converted a $21.716 million roster bonus for Mahomes into a signing bonus in 2021 (the 10-year extension didn't officially start until 2022). The move created $17.374 million in cap space for the Chiefs that season and pushed back dead cap from the Mahomes deal while upping his cap hit over the next several seasons.That allowed the Chiefs to keep paying their stars over the next several seasons and keep the core players intact. The Eagles will likely continue that process with Hurts when the time comes and restructure several contracts -- a speciality of Roseman.
Hurts' deal doesn't officially start until 2024, so that roster bonus is something to monitor.
Where the Eagles differ from Chiefs
The Chiefs didn't have the luxury of draft picks in the two years after Mahomes signed his extension. In terms of premium picks (Day 1 and Day 2), Kansas City had just two second-round picks in 2021, but two first-round picks, two second-round picks and a third-round pick in 2022.Who did Kansas City select with those picks?
| CHIEFS PICK | PLAYER |
|---|---|
| 2021 -- Round 2 (58th pick) | Nick Bolton (LB) |
| 2021 -- Round 2 (63rd pick) | Creed Humphrey (C) |
| 2022 -- Round 1 (21st pick) | Trent McDuffie (CB) |
| 2022 -- Round 1 (30th pick) | George Karlaftis (EDGE) |
| 2022 -- Round 2 (54th pick) | Skyy Moore (WR) |
| 2022 -- Round 2 (62nd pick) | Bryan Cook (S) |
| 2022 -- Round 3 (103rd pick) | Leo Chenal (LB) |
The Eagles have even more premium picks then the Chiefs did in the two years following the Hurts deal -- and didn't have to trade anyone on the roster over the last two years. Philadelphia has two first-round picks in 2023 (No. 10 and No. 30), a second-round pick (No. 62) and a third-round pick (No. 94). The Eagles have a first-round pick in 2024, two second-round picks and two third-round picks (one is a projected compensatory pick).
That's nine premium picks over the next two drafts, an excellent opportunity for the Eagles to stack up on an already talented roster. Philadelphia could repeat the success Kansas City had over the next two years of the Mahomes extension through the draft.
The Chiefs won a Super Bowl -- and been to two of them -- in the three years since Mahomes signed his massive extension. The Eagles have the quarterback and the roster to replicate the feat, or improve upon what Kansas City accomplished.
Kansas City set the blueprint for going deep in the playoffs with a highly-paid quarterback. Philadelphia has the tools to replicate the plan, or even enhance the design.
The NFL sort of shot their selves in the foot with Touchy McFeely contract.
This all well & good and I'm not against any Black man getting paid but Mahomes rightfully should be the highest paid. He got his money AFTER winning the Super Bowl. Plus I think he's been to 3 and won 2 of them. Hurts is cool but he is a runner-up. Plus I admit I'm still pissed about that fumble in the Super Bowl. But Mahomes seems to be cool with it so it really doesn't matter. But I know Mahomes can help a team win it all. The jury is still out on Hurts.
Trust me he will restructure his contract after Burrow and Herbert sign. That’s why they did 10 years to provide flexibility.
I feel ya. Admittedly I don't know shit about contract restructuring.
Mahomes might be the first billionaire NFL player. He’ll be taken care of regardless and doesn’t have the ego of having to be highest paid QB on paper.
He has a bright future and while that might be true of him becoming a billionaire if he doesn't messes up with the women he's with because we all know how that goes!
I disagree with him but that's his opinion.
Which is why I'm not gonna keep wasting my time and energy defending hurts when I know he's a top 5 or 10 QB in this league that proven a lot of people wrong who still won't give him the respect that he deserves but the other guys they have above him hasn't accomplished what hurts did.
To each their own.
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