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Rob Demovsky, ESPN Employees Author
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Rashan Gary has signed a four-year, $107 million contract extension with the Inexperienced Bay Packers, he introduced Monday.
The 2019 first-round choose had been taking part in this season on a $10.892 million fifth-year choice of his rookie contract.
Gary’s new deal consists of $96 million in new cash, together with a $34,646,928 signing bonus, a supply informed ESPN. The whole worth of the deal, which runs by way of the 2027 season, might be value as much as $107,532,706 together with all bonuses.
Gary was in line for an extension nicely earlier than this till he tore the ACL in his left knee final November. The Packers opted to attend till they might see how Gary got here again from the damage, and it was obvious instantly that Gary was pretty much as good as — if not higher than — he was earlier than the damage.
Whereas beginning the season on a restricted rep depend, which has elevated weekly however has restricted him to only 39% of the defensive snaps this season, Gary has 4.5 sacks and 15 pressures by way of seven video games. He performed a season-high 46 defensive snaps in Sunday’s loss to the Minnesota Vikings.
If the Packers wanted any convincing that Gary hadn’t misplaced something following the damage, that ought to have are available Week 3 towards the New Orleans Saints. Gary had three sacks in simply 23 snaps, solely 18 of which have been cross rushes, whereas the Packers nonetheless held him on a restricted snap depend.
“I do not know what it did to me, but it surely for positive made me a hungrier participant,” Gary mentioned not too long ago of his damage. “And I already was a hungry participant.”
Gary has 27 sacks in 63 profession video games.
San Francisco’s Nick Bosa reset the market earlier this season when he signed a five-year, $170 million contract extension that made him the highest-paid defensive participant in NFL historical past with a $34 million per yr common.
T.J. Watt ranked second amongst edge rushers at $28.15 million per yr adopted by Joey Bosa ($27 million) and Myles Garrett ($25 million). The brand new cash in Gary’s deal places him just under Garrett at $24 million.