Atlanta Falcons cornerback A.J. Terrell agreed to a four-year, $81 million contract extension, in keeping with reviews Thursday.
Terrell was once owed $12.34 million in 2024, the fifth-year workforce possibility on his rookie deal, however was once in coaching camp and mentioned in July he had no considerations about his contract.
NFL Community and ESPN reported the promises within the contract general $65.8 million, which might make Terrell the second-highest paid cornerback within the league in the back of Inexperienced Bay Packers cornerback Jaire Alexander.
There have been indicators the settlement was once within the works way back to March on the NFL’s spring assembly in Florida when basic supervisor Terry Fontenot sang the praises of the workforce’s No. 1 cornerback.
“What is cool about A.J. is I be mindful the primary day that he were given right here a number of years in the past, he was once some of the first other people I noticed within the development, and he was once continuously within the development and he is nonetheless like that,” Fontenot mentioned. “The employee, the consummate professional that he’s, that is what you get excited as a result of that is a troublesome place. … The best way that he works, he is simply continuously rising, and that is the reason necessary.”
Terrell, 25, was once the sixteenth select within the 2020 NFL Draft out of Clemson and earned second-team All-Professional honors in 2021. A bodily presence within the secondary, Terrell has 0 interceptions the previous two seasons however has 247 tackles, 43 go breakups and 4 compelled fumbles in 61 profession video games (all begins).
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