Five years, $255 million. With more than $179 million guaranteed.
That’s the new bar in the NFL for “forever quarterbacks,” those game-changing engines of championship-hopeful teams. The Philadelphia Eagles set that bar Monday, and Jalen Hurts cleared it like a gold-medalist pole vaulter, capitalizing on his breakthrough 2022 season in which he finished second in league MVP voting and propelled his team to Super Bowl LVII.
Hurts, seven days shy of the third anniversary of when he was drafted with the No. 53 pick, is now the highest-paid player in league history.
