The Texans have made defensive end Will Anderson the highest-paid non-quarterback in the NFL, based on new-money average.<\/p>\n
Anderson signed a three-year, $150 million extension to the two remaining years that Anderson was under contract.<\/p>\n
It took a little time to track down the full details, due in part to the draft.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve gotten the numbers. Here\u2019s the full breakdown, per a source with knowledge of the terms:<\/p>\n
1. Signing bonus: $32 million.<\/p>\n
2. 2026 base salary: $1.145 million, fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n
3. 2027 base salary: $21.918 million, fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n
4. 2028 base salary: $39.6 million, fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n
5. 2028 per-game roster bonus: $500,000.<\/p>\n
6. 2029 base salary: $39.5 million, $5.5 million of which is fully guaranteed at signing, all of which is guaranteed for injury at signing. The remaining $34 million becomes fully guaranteed in 2028.<\/p>\n
7. 2029 per-game roster bonus: $500,000.<\/p>\n
8. 2030 base salary: $41.5 million.<\/p>\n
9. 2030 per-game roster bonus: $500,000.<\/p>\n
So, year, it\u2019s a three-year, $150 million extension. But there are no extensions. The existing years were folded into the new ones.<\/p>\n
Factoring in his \u201cold money\u201d of $27.063 million through 2027, it\u2019s a five-year contract that pays out $177.063 million.<\/p>\n
The total average from signing, then, is $35.4 million per year.<\/p>\n
The guarantees are significant. Anderson has three of five years fully guaranteed, and the fourth year will be fully guaranteed by year four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texans have made defensive end Will Anderson the highest-paid non-quarterback in the NFL, based on new-money average.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-611972","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\/611972","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=611972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}