The Philadelphia Eagles and wide receiver DeVonta Smith have agreed to a three-year contract extension, the team announced Monday. The extension includes $51 million guaranteed, a league source confirmed to The Athletic.
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We’ve exercised the fifth-year option on WR @DeVontaSmith_6 and have agreed to terms on a 3-year contract extension through 2028.@Toyota | #FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/1w6VEnIKKV
— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) April 15, 2024
By signing Smith through the 2028 season, the Eagles are continuing to solidify the future of their offense this offseason.
Philadelphia selected Smith, who won the Hesiman Trophy during his final season at Alabama, with the 10th pick in the 2021 NFL Draft. Since then, Smith has started all but one game he was active for and has been a consistent weapon for the Eagles’ offense. The 25-year-old receiver is coming of his second straight 1,000-yard season and has tallied seven touchdowns in both years.
He caught 64 passes for 916 yards and five touchdowns as a rookie.
This is an expected move for Philadelphia, an organization that has built its deeply talented core through the draft and worked to retain that core by proactively signing homegrown players to contract extensions. Smith’s deal is the latest in a series of moves the Eagles’ front office has made this offseason to lock up key players longterm.
Philadelphia and offensive tackle Jordan Mailata, a 2018 seventh-round pick, agreed to a three-year extension worth up to $66 million, with $48 million guaranteed. The Eagles also gave Pro Bowl offensive lineman Landon Dickerson, a 2021 second-round pick, a contract extension that made him the NFL’s highest-paid guard.
Now, Smith will be under contract through the 2028 season.
General manager Howie Roseman knew he’d have to address Smith’s contract soon. It was essentially a given that Philadelphia would at the very least exercise Smith’s fifth-year option by the May 2 deadline, but that would’ve only kept Smith under contract through 2025. It was clear the Eagles were interested in striking a long-term deal.
Roseman was asked as recently about Smith’s contract at the NFL scouting combine, and he said, “without getting into specifics, those are guys you don’t really want to leave.”
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