Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love has agreed to terms on a four-year contract extension worth $220million, according to reports.
Love’s new deal includes a $75m signing bonus and $155m in guarantees.
It makes him the joint highest-paid player in the league at present and the best-paid quarterback in NFL history.
The new deal comes after Love led the NFL´s youngest team to a 10-9 record and playoff berth last season in his first year as a starter while stepping up to the challenge of replacing four-time MVP Aaron Rodgers, who was traded to the New York Jets in April 2023.
Reports of Love’s extension came the same day that Miami’s Tua Tagovailoa agreed on a four-year extension worth $212.4m.
Packers QB Jordan Love has agreed to terms on a four-year contract extension worth $220m
Detroit´s Jared Goff signed a four-year, $212m extension with $170m guaranteed, and Jacksonville´s Trevor Lawrence agreed to a five-year, $275m extension with $142m guaranteed earlier in the offseason.
The 25-year-old Love hadn’t been practicing with the Packers in training camp this week while the contract talks were unresolved, though he had been attending workouts and was participating in all other team activities. Love’s contract had been set to expire at the end of the upcoming season.
The Packers are betting on the promise Love showed during his late-season surge last year.
Green Bay had signed Love to a one-year extension in May 2023 that included $13.5m in guaranteed money with another $9m in incentives. That deal gave the Packers time to evaluate Love as he entered his first season as a starter after Rodgers, a four-time MVP, was traded to the Jets.
Love responded by completing 64.2 per cent of his passes for 4,159 yards with 32 touchdowns and 11 interceptions last season while improving dramatically as the season wore on.
He threw 21 touchdown passes with only one interception during a nine-game stretch that culminated with a 48-32 upset of the Dallas Cowboys in a wild-card playoff game.
Love shone towards the end of last season, leading Green Bay to a famous win over Dallas
Love did throw two second-half interceptions the following week in a 24-21 loss to the San Francisco 49ers.
The only other quarterbacks ever to throw for at least 4,000 yards and 32 touchdowns in their first season making multiple starts were Kurt Warner in 1999 and Patrick Mahomes in 2018.
The only quarterbacks to throw more than 32 touchdown passes in their first season with multiple starts were Mahomes (50), Warner (41) and Daunte Culpepper (33 in 2000).
Love´s 32 touchdown passes ranked second in the league, behind Dallas´ Dak Prescott (36).
Love had made only one career start before last season. After the Packers traded up to select him out of Utah State with the 26th overall pick in the 2020 draft, Love spent his first three seasons backing up Rodgers.
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