{"id":385688,"date":"2026-01-03T15:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T15:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/385688\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T15:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T15:48:07","slug":"john-jenkins-surprised-by-contract-extension-after-playing-on-11-one-year-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/385688\/","title":{"rendered":"John Jenkins surprised by contract extension after playing on 11 one-year deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ravens defensive tackle John Jenkins is 36 years old and has been in the NFL since 2013. and on Friday he experienced something new: His team signed him to a contract extension.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a long, strange trip for Jenkins to get a contract extension.<\/p>\n

Originally a 2013 third-round pick of the Saints, Jenkins was released while still on his rookie contract with the Saints in 2016. Jenkins signed a contract for the remainder of the 2016 season with the Seahawks.<\/p>\n

In 2017 Jenkins signed a one-year contract with the Bears. After that contract expired, he signed another one-year contract with the Bears in the 2018 offseason, but they cut him before the season started. After that he signed a one-year contract with the Giants for the 2018 regular season.<\/p>\n

In May of 2019, Jenkins signed a one-year contract with the Giants, but they cut him before the regular season started. After that he signed a one-year contract to play for the Dolphins in 2019.<\/p>\n

In April of 2020, Jenkins signed a one-year contract with the Bears.<\/p>\n

In April of 2021, Jenkins signed a one-year contract with the Dolphins. More than a year later, in April of 2022, he signed another one-year contract with the Dolphins.<\/p>\n

In the 2023 offseason, Jenkins signed a one-year contract with the Raiders. In the 2024 offseason, he signed another one-year contract with the Raiders.<\/p>\n

In May of 2025, Jenkins signed a one-year contract with the Ravens. And now, in January of 2026, Jenkins has finally received something he never received before: A contract extension, with the Ravens signing him to a new deal that will pay him $2 million for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been on, I want to say 11 one-deals<\/a>,\u201d Jenkins said, via ESPN. \u201cSo yeah, I was surprised.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Jenkins will be 37 next season, there are players his age and older still playing on the defensive line in the NFL: Arizona\u2019s Calais Campbell is 39, Philadelphia\u2019s Brandon Graham is 37 and Pittsburgh\u2019s Cam Heyward will turn 37 a couple months before Jenkins does. Jenkins thinks he still has something left, and the Ravens think so, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ravens defensive tackle John Jenkins is 36 years old and has been in the NFL since 2013. and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-385688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385688","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=385688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}