When you take a look at any sort of rankings of safeties within the NFL, you may discover Baltimore Ravens security Kyle Hamilton on the prime of the listing. Analysts think so, and coaches and scouts think so. Now, Hamilton is getting paid like the perfect within the league.
Hamilton and the Ravens agreed to a four-year contract extension price $100.4 million. It is the most important deal for a security in NFL historical past.
Hamilton’s contract additionally consists of $82 million in assured cash, one other NFL report (by fairly a bit). Antoine Winfield held the earlier excessive with $45 million assured in a deal signed final yr. Hamilton’s $25.1 million common annual worth is one other league report, topping the $21.25 million AAV of the Detroit Lions’ Kerby Joseph.
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The Ravens aren’t any strangers to having a star security on their staff. Ed Reed was a part of a vaunted Ravens protection all through the 2000s; Reed was additionally as soon as the highest-paid security within the league. His contract extension in 2006 was a bit lower than Hamilton’s, although: six years, $40 million.
This extension will maintain Hamilton in Baltimore by way of 2030. He has two years remaining on his present contract, together with a staff possibility for the 2026 marketing campaign.
Hamilton will look to construct on an already spectacular NFL resume. Since getting into the league, he is amassed 18 tackles for loss, 7 sacks, 5 interceptions, and 4 compelled fumbles. He is made the Professional Bowl and All-Professional groups in each of the previous two seasons, and he completed ninth final yr in AP Defensive Participant of the 12 months voting.
Hamilton known as this deal “a dream come true” and made it clear what his subsequent purpose is: successful a Tremendous Bowl.
“I feel you examine numerous containers off hopefully all through your soccer profession,” he stated. “And to not toot my very own horn, I really feel like I’ve checked a superb bit ever since highschool, and Tremendous Bowl nonetheless must be checked. We’re not attempting to attend anymore. So I wish to get grasping with that.”
Signing a nine-figure deal and successful a Tremendous Bowl in the identical season (and attending to go to Disney World)? Now that is a magical dream come true.
