{"id":2003,"date":"2024-07-18T19:34:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T19:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/trevor-lawrence-jacksonville-jaguars-quarterback-agrees-new-five-year-216m-deal\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T19:34:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T19:34:39","slug":"trevor-lawrence-jacksonville-jaguars-quarterback-agrees-new-five-year-216m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/trevor-lawrence-jacksonville-jaguars-quarterback-agrees-new-five-year-216m-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Trevor Lawrence: Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback agrees new five-year \u00a3216m deal"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence has agreed a five-year contract extension worth a reported $275m (\u00a3216m), according to NFL Network Insider.<\/b><\/p>\n

The deal is reported, external<\/span><\/a> to be worth $55 million (\u00a343m) per year with $200 million (\u00a3157m) guaranteed, which would make the 24-year-old the joint-highest earning quarterback alongside the Cincinnati Bengals’ Joe Burrow.<\/p>\n

Lawrence, the number one overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, would have played the 2024 season for $5.6 million (\u00a34.4m) on a rookie deal if no long-term agreement had been reached.<\/p>\n

In 2023 Lawrence threw for 4,016 yards, 21 touchdowns and 14 interceptions, but despite an impressive start to the season the Jaguars missed out on the play-offs.<\/p>\n

He had said he wanted his contract extension done before the start of the Jaguars’ training camp,, external<\/span><\/a> having been a key player since his NFL debut in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence has agreed a five-year contract extension worth a reported $275m (\u00a3216m), according to NFL Network Insider. The deal is reported, external to be worth $55 million (\u00a343m) per year with $200 million (\u00a3157m) guaranteed, which would make the 24-year-old the joint-highest earning quarterback alongside the Cincinnati Bengals’ Joe Burrow. Lawrence, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2005,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/2005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}