Wentz: Jumped at $128M deal: ‘Was a win-win’
Carson Wentz stated he believes his $128 million contract extension is a “win-win” for each him and the Philadelphia Eagles.
The four-year extension the staff introduced Thursday lasts by way of the 2024 season and contains $107.9 million assured, together with $66 million due at signing, a supply informed ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
“It is one thing each side wished to get carried out. I knew I wished this to be dwelling for a very long time, and ever since being drafted, it is felt like dwelling,” the quarterback stated at a information convention on Monday. “In order quickly as we discovered one thing that was a win-win, a extremely honest alternative, I jumped at it, simply because I really like this place and I wish to be right here for some time, so I felt it was a very good time.”
Wentz’s extension got here after the Seattle Seahawks gave Russell Wilson a four-year, $140 million extension with $107 million in ensures in April.
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And whereas the going market worth for a beginning quarterback is more likely to rise between now and 2024, Wentz stated his stage of consolation in Philadelphia eased any issues about signing a long-term deal.
“You possibly can play the ‘what-if sport’ 1,000,000 alternative ways — and I do not get too caught up in that — we talked by way of it, we talked by way of it, wished to succeed in one thing that was honest each for me and my household, but in addition for this staff, this group for the longer term, and I do not assume I am going to have any regrets.”
Wentz stated he may see himself residing in Philadelphia for a decade or extra after his first assembly with the staff forward of the 2016 draft, when the Eagles moved as much as choose him with the second total decide.
“From the second they traded up for me, they noticed one thing particular in me, and which means rather a lot,” Wentz stated. “And on the identical time, I noticed one thing particular on this place. I may see the chemistry, the tradition, the make-up from the second I got here right here on my go to earlier than the draft even. I knew there was one thing completely different right here, one thing particular.”
Eagles proprietor Jeffrey Lurie stated Wentz had been “extremely spectacular” since earlier than the draft.
“Each second he is been with us within the Eagles, he is simply strengthened all the things we anticipated and rather more from these (pre-draft) days, whether or not it is management, poise, the need to be actually, actually good, if not nice,” Lurie stated. “Consideration to element, good, the face of the franchise in so some ways … it is the way you draw it up. Our objectives are to win actually massive, and to do this at its greatest, you want a quarterback that wishes it actually badly, and Carson, in each manner, desires it badly.”
Wentz was injured when Nick Foles led the Eagles to their first Tremendous Bowl win within the 2017 season, and he stated neither he nor Philadelphia is glad with the one championship.
“I do not assume this metropolis, this tradition may match me any higher, simply with the fervour (the followers) deliver and the way dangerous they wish to win, and I am wired the identical manner,” Wentz stated.