Russell Wilson Inks Record Seahawks'...

April 16, 2019 - Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson becomes the highest-paid player in NFL history. According to an April 17, 2019 newspaper article in The Olympian from Olympia, Washington, Wilson signed a 4-year $140m extension including a record $65 Million signing bonus. $107  million of the contract was guaranteed!

The columnist Greg Bell of the newstribune.com wrote that the quarterback’s agent, Mark Rodgers, confirmed the contract’s figures. The amazing thing is that the Seahawks and Wilson’s reps were up into the wee hours of the night working on the deal as it was finalized at 12:44 AM on April 16, 2019, and the team called for a 1:30 PM press conference to announce it formally.

The deal works out to approximately a cool $35 million per year, nearly doubling his previous annual salary of roughly $17 million.

Wilson would be traded to the Denver Broncos before the terms of the deal finished, and later played for the Steelers and New York Giants.