Mahomes signs $450 million deal
The Kansas City Chiefs wanted to make sure they kept Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes around as long as possible.
Now they have him under contract through 2031 in what Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt calls a “significant moment.”
The Chiefs had the 2018 NFL MVP under contract for the next two seasons but that wasn't nearly enough.
“Here to stay,” Mahomes wrote on Twitter. ESPN.com reported the deal is worth $450 million with an injury guarantee of $140 million.
The Chiefs already had picked up their fifth-year option in April on Mahomes, who had been due to make $825,000 on the final year of his rookie contract in 2021. Now this extension will keep him under contract through the 2031 season.
Mahomes threw touchdown passes on consecutive fourth-quarter drives in rallying the Chiefs to their first Super Bowl title in 50 years and the first for coach Andy Reid. That Super Bowl comeback performance earned Mahomes the MVP award.
The Chiefs traded up to select him 10th overall in the 2017 draft, and he spent one season learning the ropes under Alex Smith before getting the starting job. Mahomes proceeded to shatter just about every franchise passing record.
Native American groups ask for name change: Several Native American leaders and organizations sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday calling for the league to force Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder to change the team name immediately.
The letter is signed by 15 Native American advocates. It demands the team and the NFL cease the use of Native American names, imagery and logos – with specific importance put on Washington, which last week launched a “thorough review” of its name.
The groups “expect the NFL to engage in a robust, meaningful reconciliation process with Native American movement leaders, tribes, and organizations to repair the decades of emotional violence and other serious harms this racist team name has caused to Native Peoples.”
President Donald Trump on Monday criticized both Washington and Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians for considering name changes.