Packers sign Jordan Love to richest QB contract in NFL history

The contract includes record for the most bonus payments at signing and $155 million of brand-new full-time guarantees, according to The ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported.

The Packers have signed Jordan Love to the richest contract ever for a quarterback in NFL history, according to various reports. The four-year contract is worth $220 million.

Love 25, who was the number. 26 overall selection for the 2019 NFL Draft. In the final season, which was his first season as a starter Love started every game for Green Bay, throwing for 31,315 yards and 4,159 yards with 11 interceptions and an average of 96.1 passing average . Love helped lead Green Bay Packers to the playoffs to the extent they have not since 2021. He scored five touchdowns and the two selections in two contests.

The contract provides a record-breaking amount of 75 million incentive to sign the contract, as well as $155 million in a new fully guaranteed guarantees, ESPN’s Adam Schefter declared..

A new agreement will reward Love more than other players like players from Kansas City, Patrick Mahomes, Cincinnati’s Joe Burrow and Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson. The deal seems to set the stage for quarterbacks following extensions negotiated in the summer by Jared Goff and Trevor Lawrence earlier in the summer. Love’s new contract will permit him to earn five million dollars per year in HTML0, which is the same as divided between Burrow and Lawrence, ESPN reported.

Before the signing of Love’s latest contract and he was in the final season his contract, which was set to pay him $11 million in 2024.

The Packers hired Love in 2020, despite having ex- NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers under contract at the time. Rodgers will remain the principal player of the team for three more seasons until 2022. The team failed to win a playoff match. Green Bay only won one playoff game, and it was identical to the game Love had won the previous season.

In his entire professional career Love was on the field 27 times, scoring 14 interceptions and 34 touchdowns. In his total of 18 games the team boasts an overall record which is 9-9. He’s 1-0 in the postseason and has defeated teams such as those of the Dallas Cowboys before losing to the San Francisco 49ers last January.

After a season that ended with a 9-8 mark prior to being eliminated from the playoffs for Divisional Round., The Packers will start the 2024 season alongside Philadelphia Eagles. Philadelphia Eagles on Sept. 6 at the stadium to streaming live to Peacock.