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Jemison Hannley
Owings Mills, MD. , Kyle Hamilton And this Baltimore Ravens Has reached the agreement for four years, $ 100.4 million extension that is the biggest deal for safety in NFL history, his agent, Kyle Macarthi and athletes Bryan Murfee First told ESPN’s Adam Skeffer on Wednesday.
The deal includes a $ 82 million guarantee, which crosses the previous record of $ 45 million for a security. The average annual value of $ 25.1 million on the deal also pushes Hamilton Detroit Lions, Kerby Joseph For top in NFL ($ 21.25 million).
The expansion connects Hamilton to the bucket through the 2030 season.
After the record-setting deal “a dream come true”, Hamilton reflected his draft night three years ago. Given a top-five possibility, Hamilton surprisingly fell to the revenue at number 14.
“Some people said some things where I was drafts [and] This and where I can be drafts. And at that time I think I was at least mad at anyone, “Hamilton said.” I knew that I came to the right place. Sometimes you got to see a big picture. ,
Hamilton is the first revenue player to become NFL’s highest paid security, as Ed Reid signed a six -year, $ 40 million deal in 2006.
“I think the deal really speaks how we feel about Kyle,” said Reens General Manager Eric Dacosta. “The most paid security in NFL … it is a responsibility that we do not take lightly. We have some players who have been paid the most in their position for years, and I think when you are the most paid, I think Kyle has proved that he is going to be a player to be a player to protect us very well.”
24 -year -old Hamilton was under contract through 2026, when Baltimore selected his fifth year option in this offsen. Decosta said that the negotiation on the deal was heated three weeks ago.
Entering its fourth season, Hamilton is one of the most versatile safari in the game. When he steps back into deep coverage, he can be a playmaker when he gets closer to the scripture line and disrupts the Downfield passing game.
In the last three sessions, he is back to the damage to at least 15 tackles, five sacks and five interception, and he has been named an all-Prove Team and Pro Bowl in each of the last two sessions.
In 2023, Hamilton crossed Reid’s 2003 record, when he recorded 10 of them, a revenue for the most tackle for damage by defensive back. In the previous season, Hamilton led all the safari to the minimum yards permission, which allows the closing (7.76).
Dacosta said, “One of the things you love about Kyle is that she is like a unicorn.” “He can do many different things. He does them all very well.”
Hamilton asked what he wanted to achieve further.
“Super Bowl, really,” Hamilton said. “I think you expect a lot of boxes in your entire football career. And not to totto my own horn, I think I have checked a good bit since high school, and the super bowl still has to be investigated. We are not trying to wait anymore. So I want to be stuck with it.”
The next big thing for Ravens is one for quarterbacks Lamor jacksonTheir salary cap number from $ 43.5 million to $ 74.5 million in 2025, $ 74.5 million in 2026, which is the fourth year of their contract. Revenne needs to reduce that cap figure before the start of a free agency in March.
Decosta refused to discuss where the conversation with Jackson is standing, who does not have an agent and represents himself.
“I think it is good to keep the players and such things as calm as possible with these commercial things,” said Dacosta. “Generally, I would not really like to get into any nuances regarding any of our players in my contract talks right now because I think it damages the process.”
