Commanders receiver Terry McLaurin held out, held in, asked for a trade, and then finally signed a new deal.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a three-year extension, which puts him under contract for the next two seasons.<\/p>\n
Here are the full and complete details of the deal, per a source with knowledge of the terms:<\/p>\n
1. Signing bonus: $30 million. (The payment schedule goes like this: $8 million within 30 days, $8 million by December 5, 2025; and $14 million by April 1, 2026.)<\/p>\n
2. 2025 base salary: $1.75 million, fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n
3. 2025 per-game active roster bonus: $850,000 total.<\/p>\n
4. 2026 option bonus: $10 million, fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n
5. 2026 base salary: $2.9 million, fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n
6. 2026 per-game active roster bonus: $850,000 total.<\/p>\n
7. 2027 base salary: $23.3 million, $5.35 million of which is guaranteed for injury at signing and becomes fully guaranteed in 2027.<\/p>\n
8. 2027 per-game active roster bonus: $850,000 total.<\/p>\n
9. 2028 base salary: $25.65 million.<\/p>\n
10. 2028 per-game active roster bonus: $850,000 total.<\/p>\n
The deal also includes $2.05 million in available incentives in each of the four seasons, along with a $500,000 escalator in 2026, $1 million in 2027, and $1.5 million in 2027.<\/p>\n
The incentives go like this, with a maximum of $2.05 million each year: (1) $300,000 for 83 catches or $$600,000 for 83 catches plus a playoff berth; (2) $300,000 for 1,097 receiving yards or $600,000 for 1,079 receiving yards plus a playoff berth; (3) $300,000 for 10 touchdown receptions or $600,000 for 10 touchdown receptions plus a playoff berth; and (4) $250,000 for a selection to the Pro Bowl on the initial ballot.<\/p>\n
The salary escalates by $500,000 from 2026 through 2028 for each prior season in which McLaurin is a first- or second-team All-Pro. <\/p>\n
The deal pays out $44.65 million fully guaranteed at signing. It has a new-money average of $29 million per year, and an average from signing of $25.837 million per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commanders receiver Terry McLaurin held out, held in, asked for a trade, and then finally signed a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-117782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}