Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love has agreed to terms on a four-year contract extension worth $220 million, according to reports.
Love’s new deal includes a $75 million signing bonus and $155 million in guarantees.
This makes him the highest-paid player in the league today and the highest-paid quarterback in NFL history.
The new deal comes after Love led the NFL’s youngest team to a 10-9 record and a playoff berth last season in his first year as a starter while taking on the challenge of replacing four-time MVP Aaron Rodgers, who was traded to the New York Jets in April 2023.
Reports of Love’s extension came the same day Miami’s Tua Tagovailoa agreed to a four-year extension worth $212.4 million.
Packers quarterback Jordan Love has agreed to terms on a four-year contract extension worth $220 million.
Detroit’s Jared Goff signed a four-year, $212 million extension with $170 million guaranteed, and Jacksonville’s Trevor Lawrence agreed to a five-year, $275 million extension with $142 million guaranteed earlier in the offseason.
Love, 25, had not been practicing with the Packers in training camp this week while contract negotiations were unresolved, though he had been attending workouts and participating in all other team activities. Love’s contract was set to expire at the end of next season.
The Packers are banking on the promise Love showed during his late-season resurgence last year.
Green Bay had signed Love to a one-year extension in May 2023 that included $13.5 million in guaranteed money and another $9 million in incentives. That deal gave the Packers time to evaluate Love as he entered his first season as a starter after Rodgers, a four-time MVP, was traded to the Jets.
Love responded by completing 64.2 percent of his passes for 4,159 yards with 32 touchdowns and 11 interceptions last season, improving dramatically as the season progressed.
He threw 21 touchdown passes with just one interception during a nine-game stretch that culminated in a surprise 48-32 victory over the Dallas Cowboys in a wild-card playoff game.
Love shined late last season, leading Green Bay to a famous victory over Dallas.
Love threw two second-half interceptions the following week in a 24–21 loss to the San Francisco 49ers.
The only other quarterbacks to throw for at least 4,000 yards and 32 touchdowns in their first season while making multiple starts were Kurt Warner in 1999 and Patrick Mahomes in 2018.
The only quarterbacks to throw more than 32 touchdown passes in their first season with multiple starts were Mahomes (50), Warner (41) and Daunte Culpepper (33 in 2000).
Love’s 32 touchdown passes ranked second in the league behind Dallas’ Dak Prescott (36).
Love had only started once in his career before last season. After the Packers moved up in the 2020 draft and selected him out of Utah State with the 26th overall pick, Love spent his first three seasons as Rodgers’ backup.