Big Ben, Steelers agree to extension

Pro Bowl QB lands deal worth $80M through ’21 season

The Steelers and the two-time Super Bowl winner agreed to terms on a contract extension Wednesday that will keep Roethlisberger in Pittsburgh through the 2021 season. Roethlisberger had been set to enter the final year of a contract he signed in 2015.

Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but ESPN reported that the deal is worth $68 million and includes a $37.5 million signing bonus and a $30 million injury guarantee. Roethlisberger had one year at $12 million left, meaning he will make $80 million total over the next three seasons.

Roethlisberger, who turned 37 last month, is coming off the finest statistical season of his 15-year career. His 5,129 yards passing led the NFL and his 34 touchdown passes broke his own franchise mark, but the Steelers missed the playoffs for the first time since 2013. Record deal for Tucker: The Ravens signed twotime Pro Bowler Justin Tucker to a four-year, $20.45 million contract extension, ESPN reported.

Tucker, 29, the most accurate kicker in league history, now will be the highest-paid kicker in league history. The deal includes $12.5 million fully guaranteed in the first two years and an $8 million signing bonus. It runs through the 2023 season. Lynch retires again: Marshawn Lynch is calling it a career — again.

ESPN reported that Lynch, who turned 33 on Monday, doesn’t plan to play football again.

The Super Bowl champ and five-time Pro Bowler first retired after the 2015 season, only to return with his hometown Raiders in 2017.

Hill won’t be charged: A Kansas district attorney declined to charge Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill with a crime in a domestic incident that involved his fiance and their 3-year-old child.

Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe said “we believe a crime has occurred, however, the evidence does not conclusively establish who committed this crime.”

Police were called to the home of Hill and Crystal Espinal twice last month, and the investigators said their child had been injured. Howe said there will be “a continued involvement by state officials” but declined to discuss the health of the child.

He described the case as a difficult one because of the child’s involvement.