Remember those times when you’d sprint at the last minute to get your taxes filed just under the April 15 deadline?
The Seahawks can probably relate to that.
Quarterback Russell Wilson and his agent, Mark Rogers, had given the team a deadline of April 15th to get an extension done for the superstar, who has become the face of the franchise as the Legion of Boom defense has experienced mountainous turnover in the last few years. At the very last minute, as first reported by ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the two sides finally came to an agreement on a deal that totals $140 million in new money over four years with a $65 million signing bonus.
The deal takes Wilson over Aaron Rodgers, who signed a four-year, $134 million extension in August, 2018 that pays him 33.5 million per year. That deal had a $57.5 million signing bonus with $98.2 million in total guarantees. Given that Wilson now has a deal in place that pays him $35 million per year, it’s safe to assume that the guaranteed money hovers over $100 million.
Wilson, the 75th overall pick in the 2012 draft, signed his first contract extension in July, 2015–a four-year, $86 million deal with a $31 million signing bonus. His base salary of $15.5 million in 2018 was one of the NFL’s best bargains, as was the $17 million he was to make with no window beyond the franchise tag designation if this new deal didn’t get done.
It’s still a relative bargain for the Seahawks, who would have been in a major pickle without Wilson under center beyond the 2019 season. Though he’s played through various injuries in his career, he’s never missed a start since his rookie year, and he’s played at a superlative level despite horrible offensive line play through most of his career, and some highly limited passing concepts. In 2018, he threw for 3,448 yards and 35 touchdowns–a career high–on just 427 passing attempts. It was the second year of his career that Wilson posted a quarterback rating over 110 (2015 was the other season that happened).
Wilson was also one of the league’s best deep throwers–per Pro Football Focus, he tied with Ben Roethlisberger and Patrick Mahomes with 15 touchdown passes on throws going 20 yards in the air or more, and he had just one deep interception to Roethlisberger’s two and Mahomes’s six. And when throwing under pressure–something Wilson’s quite used to doing–he was the only NFL quarterback to throw a league-leading 10 touchdowns.
This is a major financial commitment, but in the end, the Seahawks had no choice. This is a team with championship expectations that hasn’t reached past the divisional playoffs since the end of the 2014 season. Getting anywhere near a Super Bowl with an offense still searching for definition and a formerly all-time great defense under reconstruction isn’t possible without a quarterback able to break the paradigms of the position.
Russell Wilson has proven he can do that, and that’s why he’s broken the financial paradigms of the position, as well.
Russell Wilson Makes History, Becomes The Highest Paid NFL Player
April 16, 2019
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