Report: Ravens QB Lamar Jackson’s Contract Extension Could Net $40-45M A Year

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Ravens backmost Lamar Jackson is expected to go 1 of the highest-paid NFL players aft helium negotiates his declaration hold with the team.

It’s Jackson’s archetypal hold aft his rookie deal, and with his bragging rights arsenic the 2019 NFL MVP, he’s got negotiating power. The talks with his squad are unconventional arsenic he’s forgoing an agent and having his mother, Felicia Jones, assistance out.

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ESPN newsman Dan Graziano said Jackson could nett betwixt $40 and $45 cardinal a year, putting him successful the apical 3 highest-paid players. He utilized the Chief’s Patrick Mahomes $45 Million benchmark arsenic a ceiling for Jackson.

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“It wouldn’t astonishment radical astir the league if Jackson’s woody came successful down Mahomes’ $45 million-a-year mean and up of Prescott’s $40 million, but arsenic always, the cardinal volition beryllium to ticker the operation and guarantees,” wrote Graziano successful a study debating declaration extensions.

With an unconventional dialog ongoing, Jackson could suffer retired connected millions of dollars, oregon travel retired the astir minted subordinate successful the league. Either way, he’s soaring past his four-year $9.5 cardinal rookie contract.

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CBS Baltimore Staff