Jalen Hurts’ five-year, $255 million extension with the Eagles, signed in April 2023, averages $51 million a year and runs through 2028. (Getty Images)
Jalen Hurts signed a five-year, $255 million extension with the Philadelphia Eagles in April 2023, and the details matter more than the headline numbers suggest. The deal carries $179.304 million in total guarantees, including $110 million fully guaranteed at signing. The contract runs through 2028 and averages $51 million a year, which was a league record at the time.
It also holds the first no-trade clause in Eagles history. Here is how the money is built, what protects each side, and why the clause may say the most.
That ties him to Philadelphia through 2028. The $255 million is new money, which works out to $51 million a year, and no player in the league earned more on average at the time. Hurts was only 24. He had been a second-round pick in 2020. The package opens with a $23.294 million signing bonus. Hurts can add up to $15 million through incentives. Include the $4.304 million he was still owed on his rookie deal, and the ceiling reaches $274.304 million. The total guarantee is $179.304 million, roughly 70 percent of the headline figure. Of that, $110 million was fully guaranteed at signing, and the fully guaranteed amount rose to $126.5 million by March 2024. Watson’s $230 million from Cleveland, fully guaranteed, remains the outlier. Hurts’ $51 million now sits below the top tier, though his $110 million fully guaranteed at signing ranked third in NFL history when it was agreed.
Asked why he did not push for a fully guaranteed deal, Hurts said that on the best teams in the NFL, “it takes a village. The extension adds five new seasons to the one Jalen Hurts still had left on his rookie contract. A lot of it. Early reports also described part of the bigger total as injury protection, so the fully guaranteed slice is the firmer money. Only Deshaun Watson and Russell Wilson had more fully guaranteed at signing. The point is plain enough. Hurts accepted some risk, and the team kept room to build around him. The quarterback market moves fast, and each new deal lifts the next.