Justin Herbert‘quarterback’ de Los Angeles Chargessigned a five-year contract extension on Tuesday and 262.5 million dollars that place him as the highest paid player in the NFL.
Thanks to this agreement, the quarterback will win 52.5 million dollars annually; surpasses the Lamar Jackson, of the Baltimore Ravens, who will get 52 million; and Jalen Hurts of the Philadelphia Eagleswith 51, passers who at the beginning of the year commanded the list of the best paid.
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The 52.5 million that the Chargers will pay to Herbert represent a 138.6 percent increase compared to what 10 years ago the then highest paid in the NFL earned, which in 2013 was Aaron Rodgers with 22 million dollars. Today, Rodgers is fourth on the list of those who receive the most money, with 50.2 million.
Justin Herbert was a first-round pick the Chargers they chose in the 2020 Draft, the season in which he was awarded Rookie of the Year.
In three years he has been a starter in 49 out of 50 possible games.
The boy born in Eugene, Oregon, He is the first player in NFL history who in his first three seasons completes 1,316 passes for 14,089 yards and has 102 touchdowns, 94 through the air and eight on the ground.
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He’s also the only player in history to pass for more than 4,000 yards in each of his first three seasons.
His achievements don’t stop there. In 2021 he was selected to the Pro Bowl, something that no Chargers quarterback had achieved since the last century with Dan Fouts, considered the best passer in the team’s history. Fouts, who was nicknamed “The Highlander,” had six Pro Bowl berths in 15 years with the franchise.
With Herbert, who played for the Oregon Ducks of college football, The Los Angeles Charges have a record of 25 wins and 24 losses in the regular season and they have an appearance in the ‘playoffs’ from the previous season, in which they fell in the wild card round against the Jaguars.
2023-07-26 14:26:09
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