Resources: QB Allen, Expenses succeed in checklist $330M deal

• Alaina GetzenbergMar 9, 2025, 07:39 PM ET

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  Alaina Getzenberg covers the Buffalo Expenses for ESPN. She joined ESPN in 2021. Alaina used to be in the past a beat reporter for the Charlotte Observer and has additionally labored for CBS Sports activities and the Dallas Morning Information. She is a graduate of the College of California, Berkeley.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Expenses have rewarded NFL MVP Josh Allen with a record-setting six-year, $330 million contract in the course of the 2030 season that comes with $250 million assured, assets advised ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Sunday.

It is the greatest assured general given to an NFL participant, surpassing the former mark of Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson, who gained $230 million assured.

Allen, who used to be in the past signed thru 2028, shall be 34 years outdated when the general 12 months of this extension starts. The extension takes Allen from the 14th-highest moderate annual price amongst quarterbacks ($43 million) to tied for 2d ($55 million). Handiest Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott has a freelance with a better moderate annual price ($60 million).

“I like Josh and so happy with what he is achieved, and so, I might be right here all day speaking about how nice he’s and what he is achieved for our crew and the place he belongs within the pecking order of all that stuff,” basic supervisor Brandon Beane stated on the finish of the 2024 season. “He and I’ve an ideal courting. We communicate so much. When the mud settles, earlier than we are ever in point of fact chatting with his agent or his brokers calling me, like, Josh and I will be able to have the ones conversations [about a potential extension], holistically in regards to the crew, such things as that. And I am not announcing it’ll occur, I am not announcing it may not occur. … There will be a time and position, and no longer announcing we will be able to, however no longer ruling it out both.”

Allen was the primary participant in NFL historical past to checklist a minimum of 25 landing passes and 10 landing runs with fewer than 10 interceptions in a season. He completed with 28 landing passes, 12 speeding touchdowns and six interceptions.

Allen has accounted for 260 touchdowns in his profession by the use of passing or speeding, essentially the most in a participant’s first seven seasons in NFL historical past and 29 greater than the next-closest participant, Patrick Mahomes.

Bettering turnovers used to be a point of interest for Allen heading into the 2024 season, and he spoke back with the bottom quantity in a season for his profession (8). That went far towards the Expenses’ good fortune as they received their 5th consecutive AFC East identify.

Allen additionally took a step ahead in management in 2024, after an offseason of transition, via serving as certainly one of two crew captains.

“Josh Allen’s management, his constant management, used to be the largest explanation why we did what we did this season. So, anyone that tries to mention in a different way, I do know higher,” trainer Sean McDermott stated on the finish of the season. “I have observed it, and him now doing that each and every season for us, no longer a very simple endeavor.”

Allen’s play and management “went hand in hand,” McDermott stated.

“He continues to try this, we are going to win a large number of soccer video games.”

Allen was the crew’s 3rd participant to be voted MVP, becoming a member of Thurman Thomas (1991) and O.J. Simpson (1973).

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Since coming into the league in 2018, Allen has 65 speeding touchdowns — 10 greater than a better closest quarterback (Jalen Hurts). Allen has accounted for no less than 40 touchdowns (passing or speeding) in 5 immediately seasons, the longest streak in NFL historical past. No different participant has achieved that during 4 immediately seasons, and simplest Aaron Rodgers has had extra such seasons (six).

Allen will move into 2025 with consistency, as coordinator Joe Brady enters his 2d complete season within the position. Allen is coming off his 2d AFC Championship Recreation look and going into his 8th season in search of his first Tremendous Bowl look after going 0-4 towards the Kansas Town Chiefs and Mahomes within the postseason.

“We are going to proceed to show each and every stone over and pass the T’s, dot the I’s and do no matter we will to take a look at to carry a Lombardi again right here to Western New York,” Allen stated on the finish of the season.

The extension tops a slew of new new offers for Buffalo gamers: defensive finish Greg Rousseau reached a four-year, $80 million contract; linebacker Terrel Bernard were given a four-year, $50 million contract; and receiver Khalil Shakir agreed to a four-year, $53 million extension.

Allen, the No. 7 pick out in 2018 out of Wyoming, was the primary participant in 21 seasons to win MVP with out being decided on first-team All-Professional. Since MVP used to be first awarded in 1957, the one different gamers to win in spite of no longer being a first-team All-Professional had been Broncos quarterback John Elway (1987, when Joe Montana used to be first-team All-Professional) and Titans quarterback Steve McNair (2003, Manning).