Firebaugh native Josh Allen to get record $250M guaranteed in new deal, ESPN sources say

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Bills person rewarded NFL MVP Josh Allen with a record-setting six-year, $330 cardinal declaration done the 2030 play that includes $250 cardinal guaranteed, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter connected Sunday.

It's the largest guaranteed full fixed to an NFL player, surpassing the erstwhile people of Cleveland Browns backmost Deshaun Watson, who received $230 cardinal guaranteed.

Allen, who was antecedently signed done 2028, volition beryllium 34 years aged erstwhile the last twelvemonth of this hold begins. The hold takes Allen from the 14th-highest mean yearly worth among quarterbacks ($43 million) to tied for 2nd ($55 million). Only Dallas Cowboys backmost Dak Prescott has a declaration with a higher mean yearly worth ($60 million).

"I emotion Josh and truthful arrogant of what he's done, and so, I could beryllium present each time talking astir however large helium is and what he's done for our squad and wherever helium belongs successful the pecking bid of each that stuff," wide manager Brandon Beane said astatine the extremity of the 2024 season. "He and I person a large relationship. We speech a lot. When the particulate settles, earlier we're ever truly talking to his cause oregon his agents calling me, like, Josh and I volition person those conversations [about a imaginable extension], holistically astir the team, things similar that. And I'm not saying it volition happen, I'm not saying it won't happen. ... There'll beryllium a clip and place, and not saying we will, but not ruling it retired either."

Allen became the archetypal subordinate successful NFL past to grounds astatine slightest 25 touchdown passes and 10 touchdown runs with less than 10 interceptions successful a season. He finished with 28 touchdown passes, 12 rushing touchdowns and 6 interceptions.

Allen has accounted for 260 touchdowns successful his vocation via passing oregon rushing, the astir successful a player's archetypal 7 seasons successful NFL past and 29 much than the next-closest subordinate successful Patrick Mahomes.

Improving turnovers was a focal constituent for Allen heading into the 2024 season, and helium responded with the lowest magnitude successful a play for his vocation (eight). That went a agelong mode toward the Bills' occurrence arsenic they won their 5th consecutive AFC East title.

Allen besides took a measurement guardant successful enactment successful 2024, aft an offseason of transition, by serving arsenic 1 of 2 squad captains.

"Josh Allen's leadership, his accordant leadership, was the biggest crushed wherefore we did what we did this season. So, anybody that tries to accidental otherwise, I cognize better," manager Sean McDermott said astatine the extremity of the season. "I've seen it, and him present doing that each play for us, not an casual undertaking."

Allen's play and enactment "went manus successful hand," McDermott said.

"He continues to bash that, we're going to triumph a batch of shot games."

Allen became the team's 3rd subordinate to beryllium voted MVP, joining Thurman Thomas (1991) and O.J. Simpson (1973).

Since entering the league successful 2018, Allen has 65 rushing touchdowns -- 10 much than the adjacent closest backmost (Jalen Hurts). Allen has accounted for astatine slightest 40 touchdowns (passing oregon rushing) successful 5 consecutive seasons, the longest streak successful NFL history. No different subordinate has done that successful 4 consecutive seasons, and lone Aaron Rodgers has had much specified seasons (six).

Allen volition spell into 2025 with consistency, arsenic coordinator Joe Brady enters his 2nd afloat play successful the role. Allen is coming disconnected his 2nd AFC Championship quality and going into his eighth play looking for his archetypal Super Bowl quality aft going 0-4 against the Kansas City Chiefs and Mahomes successful the postseason.

"We're going to proceed to crook each chromatic implicit and transverse the T's, dot the I's and bash immoderate we tin to effort to bring a Lombardi backmost present to Western New York," Allen said astatine the extremity of the season.

The hold tops a slew of caller caller deals for Buffalo players: antiaircraft extremity Greg Rousseau reached a four-year, $80 cardinal contract; linebacker Terrel Bernard got a four-year, $50 cardinal contract; and receiver Khalil Shakir agreed to a four-year, $53 cardinal extension.

Allen, the 2018 seventh wide prime retired of Wyoming, became the archetypal subordinate successful 21 seasons to triumph MVP without being selected first-team All-Pro. Since MVP was archetypal handed retired successful 1957, the lone different players to triumph the grant contempt not being a first-team All-Pro were Broncos backmost John Elway (1987, erstwhile Joe Montana was first-team All-Pro) and Titans backmost Steve McNair (2003, Manning).