Chiefs, Jones agree to 4-year, $85M extension
The Kansas City Chiefs and Pro Bowl defensive tackle Chris Jones agreed to a four-year contract that could be worth up to $85 million on Tuesday, the latest in a lavish spending spree by the Super Bowl champions as they continue to lock up their core pieces as training camp approaches.
The deal for Jones, which comes on the heels of a record-setting 10-year extension for quarterback Patrick Mahomes, includes $60 million in guarantees, a person familiar with the terms told the Associated Press.
The length of Jones’ contract works out for the Chiefs in that it expires before the big-money years begin for Mahomes, whose baseball-like contract could surpass $500 million total over the 12 years that he is under contract.
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CLOSING IN ON CONTRACT EXTENSION » The Cleveland Browns are closing in on a contract extension with star defensive end Myles Garrett, a person familiar with the negotiations told the Associated Press.
Garrett, the No. 1 overall pick in 2017 and one of the NFL’s top edge rushers, and the team could have the deal completed in the next day or so, said the person. NFL Network reported the extension could be for five years and $125 million, which would make Garrett the league’s highest-paid defensive player. EAGLES SIGN PETERS, PLAN TOMOVEHIMTORIGHTGUARD » Philadelphia has signed nine-time Pro Bowl left tackle Jason Peters to a oneyear deal and plan to use him at right guard.
The 38-year-old Peters enters his 17th season in the NFL and 12th in Philadelphia. He’ll replace three-time Pro Bowl right guard Brandon Brooks, who tore his left
Achilles tendon last month and will miss the season.
Peters has started 201 games in his career, including six playoff games. He played right tackle one season in Buffalo before switching
to the left side in 2006.
Pro basketball
KINGS’ BARNES SAYS HE HAS CORONAVIRUS » Harrison Barnes of the Sacramento Kings became the latest
NBA player to reveal that he has coronavirus, saying he has hopes to join his team at the league’s restart later this summer.
The former Warrior is the only player who has started all 64 of the Kings’ games this season. Barnes is averaging 14.7 points this season for the Kings.
“Prior to the team leaving last week, I tested positive for Covid-19,” Barnes wrote on social media. “I’ve been primarily asymptomatic and am doing well. I’m quarantined and am abiding by the safety protocol until I’m cleared for action. I hope to join my team in Orlando when it is safe to do so! Stay safe out there.”
College athletics
1ST FEMALE ALLEGES SEXUAL ABUSE BY U OF MICHIGAN DOCTOR » The first female to publicly say she was sexually abused by a team doctor at the University of Michigan says she hopes to inspire other women and men to come forward.
Cathy Kalahar, who played tennis for the Wolverines in the 1970s, joins hundreds of Michigan graduates who have already alleged that doctor Robert Anderson molested them. Anderson died in 2008.
Kalahar told the Associated Press that Anderson assaulted her during an exam when she was a freshman in 1973, when the school had its first women’s tennis team.
Kalahar said she told a psychological counselor at the school about what happened but that the woman, whose name Kalahar does not recall, brushed it off as a “sexual fantasy” she said the student was having about Anderson.
Kalahar is represented by Denver-based Wahlberg, Woodruff, Nimmo & Sloane, a law firm that is representing more than 115 clients who allege Anderson sexually abused them.