Orchard Park, NY – The NFL MVP, Josh Allen, was rewarded on Sunday with a contract extension with a value of $ 330 million, including an NFL record $ 250 million guaranteed, which does so among the best paid players in the league.
The Buffalo Bills announced the agreement, while two people with knowledge of the agreement revealed the value of the contract to Associated Press. People spoke with the AP under the condition of anonymity because the Bills did not release that figure, which was first informed by ESPN.com.
The New Deal adds two years to the Allen contract and blocks the 28 -year -old until the 2030s.
The five -year contract of the Cleveland field marshal, Deshaun Watson, signed in 2022, established the previous record with $ 230 million in guarantees, By spotrac.com. The total value of the new Allen contract occupies the second place behind the Patrick Mahomes of Kansas City, who signed 10 years and $ 450 million in 2020.
Meanwhile, the Dallas field marshal, Dak Prescott, heads the NFL list at an average of $ 60 million per season after signing an extension of the contract of four years and $ 240 million last summer.
Allen’s new contract follows his seventh NFL season in which he became the third Bills player to win NFL MVPAnd first since the Thurman Thomas corridor did it in 1991. The New Deal Eclipsa the previous contract of Allen, a six -year contract of $ 258 million that he signed with Buffalo in August 2021.
Allen has established himself as one of the elite quartbacks of the league and rewritten almost all passes of a single season of franchises and annotations in his position. In doing so, he has overcome The many questions and criticism He faced himself to be considered a raw and inaccurate player when Buffalo selected him with the number 7 team in the Wyoming 2018 Draft.
Equally important, Allen has solidified what had been an unstable position in Buffalo since the member of the Fame Hall Jim Kelly retired after the 1996 season. The Bills under Allen have won five consecutive titles of the AFC East and are in a six -year -old playoff race.
Allen’s MVP honor occurred during a season in which he essentially did more with what was considered less talent around him. Adopt a motto of “All Come”Buffalo escaped with the AFC East by ensuring the division with five games still left in a season of 13 victories and after the team exchanged the best option to receive Stefon Diggs to Houston and lost the receiver No. 2 Gabe Davis in free agency.
Although Allen could not exceed 4,000 yards for the first time since 2019, the field marshal enjoyed its most efficient season with about six race interceptions, one year after launching an 18 -year race. Allen ended with 28 touchdowns, scored another 12 runs and a touchdown was attributed after completing a pass to Amari, who then passed the ball to Quarterback.
The only thing missing for Allen is an appearance of the Super Bowl. The Bills have arrived at the AFC championship game in 2020 and This past season Just to lose twice for Kansas City.
The New Deal also follows a significant development in Allen’s personal life. The field marshal proposed to actress and singer Hailee Steinfeld during the team’s goodbye in mid -November. His relationship began in the spring of 2023, when images of the two arose in New York City.
Allen accredited Steinfeld for playing an important support role in his professional development.
“She has been a large part. Morality, support. When I get home, she is my greatest fan, my greatest defender. She is the best, ”Allen told the AP in December.
The new contract is also expected to provide very necessary savings for Buffalo under the salary limit that enters the new commercial year of the League, which opens on Wednesday. It was projected that the team would be close to the limit limit after Releasing the veteran border corridor von Miller Earlier in the day.
And the agreement follows the GM Brandon Beane spending the last weeks enclosing the young team of the team by signing the fourth year corridor Greg Rousseau and the supporter of the third year players Terrel Bernard and the receiver Khalil Shakir to extensions of four -year contracts.
An All-Pro, twice, the 76 victories of Allen, 262 Touchdowns and 30,595 total yards are the most NFL players in their first seven seasons in the League.
From a team’s perspective, Allen has the two best records of seasonal walk yards surpassed by their 4,544 in 2020 and last season he passed to Kelly for most total touchdowns with 262. Among the team records of a season he owns are most of the TD passes (37 in 2020), most of the ending (646 in 2021) of completion (69.2 percent in 2020).
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The AP Pro football writer, Rob Maaddi, contributed to this story.
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