Andrew Luck signs monster contract extension that will reportedly make him the highest paid player in football
Andy Lyons/Getty
The Indianapolis Colts have signed Andrew Luck to a five-year, $139 million contract extension that includes a record $89 million guaranteed, making him the highest-paid player in the history of the NFL.
Team owner Jim Irsay first tweeted the news of Luck's extension, and several NFL insiders quickly followed up the news with the details of the contract.
As Adam Schefter noted, both the total number ($139 million) and guaranteed money ($89 million) are the most in the history of football.
Details on Andrew Luck deal:
5-year extension (6-year deal).
Just north of $139 million (a record).
$87 million in guarantees (a record).
- Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) June 29, 2016
Prior to Luck's extension, Philip Rivers and Eli Manning had led the league with $65 million in guaranteed money. Luck's new contract blows those figures out of the water.
Last season, Luck played just seven games as he struggled with injuries.
- I spent $2,000 for 7 nights in a 179-square-foot room on one of the world's largest cruise ships. Take a look inside my cabin.
- Saudi Arabia wants China to help fund its struggling $500 billion Neom megaproject. Investors may not be too excited.
- Colon cancer rates are rising in young people. If you have two symptoms you should get a colonoscopy, a GI oncologist says.
- 10 Best things to do in India for tourists
- 19,000 school job losers likely to be eligible recruits: Bengal SSC
- Groww receives SEBI approval to launch Nifty non-cyclical consumer index fund
- Retired director of MNC loses ₹25 crore to cyber fraudsters who posed as cops, CBI officers
- Hyundai plans to scale up production capacity, introduce more EVs in India