Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love has reportedly agreed to a four-year, $220 million contract extension.
Love’s new deal includes a $75 million signing bonus and $155 million in guarantees.
This makes him currently the highest-paid player in the league and the highest-paid quarterback in NFL history.
The new deal comes after Love led the NFL’s youngest team to a 10-9 record and a playoff berth in his first year as a starter last season while taking on 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 on the same day that Miami’s Tua Tagovailoa agreed to a four-year, $212.4 million extension.
Packers QB Jordan Love has agreed to terms on a four-year, $220 million contract extension
Detroit’s Jared Goff signed a four-year, $212 million extension with $170 million guaranteed, and Jacksonville’s Trevor Lawrence agreed to a five-year, $275 million contract extension, $142 million of which was guaranteed earlier this offseason.
The 25-year-old Love did not work out with the Packers in training camp this week while contract talks were still ongoing, though he attended practices and participated in all other team activities. Love’s contract was set to expire at the end of next season.
The Packers are banking on the promise Love showed last year during his late-season surge.
Green Bay had signed Love to a one-year 2023 contract extension that came with $13.5 million in guaranteed money and another $9 million in incentives. That deal gave the Packers time to evaluate Love as he entered his first season as the starter after Rodgers, a four-time MVP, was traded to the Jets.
Love responded by completing 64.2 percent of his passes for 4,159 yards with 32 touchdowns and 11 interceptions last season, and he improved significantly as the season progressed.
He threw 21 touchdown passes and only one interception during a nine-game streak that culminated in a 48–32 victory over the Dallas Cowboys in a wild-card playoff game.
Love shone toward the end of last season, leading Green Bay to a famous victory over Dallas
Love threw two interceptions in the second half the following week, leading to a 24-21 loss to the San Francisco 49ers.
The only other quarterbacks to throw for at least 4,000 yards and 32 touchdowns in their first season as a starter 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 rank second in the league, behind Dallas’ Dak Prescott (36).
Love had made just one career start before last season. After the Packers traded him out of Utah State with the 26th overall pick in the 2020 draft, Love spent his first three seasons as Rodgers’ backup.