Allen reveals long-term objective after signing extension with Payments
Buffalo Payments quarterback Josh Allen is the reigning NFL regular-season Most Useful Participant who turns 29 years outdated this coming Could, so logic suggests he has loads of good soccer forward of him.
However, he made it identified whereas talking with reporters Wednesday about placing pen to paper on a historic contract extension that he hopes to finally retire a one-club man.
“I attempt not to consider the tip,” Allen stated about his profession, as shared by RJ Kraft and Joe Buscaglia of The Athletic. “It’s nonetheless an extended methods away, however completely. I don’t need to play anyplace else. Not too usually do gamers get to stick with one group their complete profession. … That is dwelling to me, and it’ll by no means not be dwelling and I’d like to proceed to play right here so long as I can. When it’s time to place the cleats up, hopefully it’ll be in Buffalo.”
Allen up to now has performed just for the Payments since they made him the seventh total decide of the 2018 NFL Draft, and he may’ve seemed to fully reset the marketplace for gamers on the place coming off the very best season, thus far, of his profession.
He and the Payments lately agreed to a six-year, $330M contract extension that included a document $250M in assured cash. To match, Dallas Cowboys starter Dak Prescott inked a four-year extension reportedly price $240M with $231M assured forward of the 2024 marketing campaign.
In line with the Spotrac web site, the common annual worth of $55M connected to Allen’s new settlement has him tied for the second-highest within the league with Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals, Jordan Love of the Inexperienced Bay Packers and Trevor Lawrence of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Prescott tops the listing at $60M per yr.
“I understood the affect of getting an extension achieved — create some [salary-cap] house,” Allen stated about why he seemingly gave the Payments considerably of a reduction. “It’s type of a bizarre scenario the place it’s like, I’ve had an enormous contract earlier than, and it doesn’t actually change how I lived in my life. However I do know that once more, this opens up some house for cap and signing some free brokers.”
It is sensible Allen was extra involved with serving to the Payments than with maximizing the worth of his settlement. Whereas some view him because the most-gifted total quarterback within the NFL right now, he and Buffalo fell to 0-4 in opposition to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs in postseason motion through the 32-29 loss to Kansas Metropolis on this yr’s AFC Championship Sport.
As of Thursday morning, DraftKings Sportsbook had the Payments tied for second among the many betting favorites at +700 odds to win Tremendous Bowl LX subsequent February. Allen has but to play past a convention title contest throughout a postseason match.
“That is actually the one factor I am fascinated with, simply making an attempt to proceed to get higher and discover a option to deliver a Lombardi Trophy to Western New York,” Allen added throughout his feedback, per Alaina Getzenberg of ESPN.
