Agent’s Take: Potential Trevor Lawrence contract compromise that could benefit Jaguars and 2021 No. 1 pick

Jacksonville Jaguars general manager Trent Baalke called Trevor Lawrence the team’s long-term quarterback in late January and also said that a contract extension would get done at the right time. The right time could be at any point before the Jaguars open training camp in the latter part of July as negotiations are ongoing. That would be ideal, according to Lawrence, 2021’s first overall pick.

Lawrence is under contract for two more seasons worth $31,341,293 because the Jaguars exercised a fully guaranteed $25.664 million fifth-year option with him for 2025. He is scheduled to make $5,677,293 in 2024 on an $11,707,018 salary cap number.

Lawrence surely has his sights set at the top of the NFL pay-scale market given how quarterbacks selected first overall who signed contract extensions with two years remaining on rookie contracts have been treated in recent years. Kyler Murray, the first overall pick in 2019, signed a five-year, $230.5 million contract extension (worth up to $238 million through salary escalators), averaging $46.1 million per year, with the Arizona Cardinals in July 2022 at the start of training camp to become the NFL’s second-highest-paid player. Murray, 2019’s NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year, was coming off a terrible performance in the one playoff game of his professional career, a lopsided loss to the eventual Super Bowl LVI champion Los Angeles Rams, when he signed his extension. 

The league’s second-highest-paid player is Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff. He received a four-year, $212 million extension (worth up to $216 million through salary escalators), averaging $53 million per year. Goff’s deal contains $170,611,832 in guarantees where $113,611,832 was fully guaranteed at signing. The $113,611,832 includes an NFL-record $73 million signing bonus.

Joe Burrow, the first overall pick in 2020, vaulted to the top of the NFL salary hierarchy when he signed…

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Author : Joel Corry

Publish date : 2024-06-12 16:23:10

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