Kerby Joseph signed a 4 year contract extension with the Detroit Lions worth $85.0 million with $36.121 million in total guarantees. The contract is fully guaranteed at $24.38 million. Joseph received a $10.011 million signing bonus, and has 4 option bonuses ($9.625 million in 2026, $16.58 million in 2027, $19.035 million in 2028, and $23.905 million in 2029). Joseph has $13 million in injury protection for 2027 that will become fully guaranteed (partially in 2026, and remaining in 2027).
Wow, this is the first contract from Holmes that I have seen where he followed the Eagles approach. He pushed almost 40mil into 2030 in a void year.
This is the right approach for a team ready to win now and aligns closer to when you would expect to see the end of Goff’s tenure here. There will be a similar approach to extensions for Hutch, LaPorta, Branch, Gibbs, Campbell, Jamo, or anyone else who may be signed. I bet we start seeing a bunch of money money into 2030 and beyond.
Why do I get so annoyed when people misspell Kerby? I mean, it’s right in the headline of the article that was posted. It’s a me thing, I’ve gotta work on that like people gotta work on proper spelling lol
There will be more like that, it’s just Detroit has kept their options open with last years extensions (Goff, ARSB, Sewell, Alim, etc). They are going to have to do some basic restructures to keep the band together. They have 9 players making $210M in cash . . . they’ll still get the $210M in cash, but we’ll do several restructures to lower the cap hit (same thing the eagles are doing, just instead of built in option bonuses, we’re just doing simple restructures).
It’s really a $38M/2yr contract with a $21M option for the 3rd year and $26M option for a 4th year, but make no mistake this is a contract that the Lions fully expect to execute.
The practical guarantee is 44%, ($38M/$85M).
He’s getting $19M for 2027 and $19M for 2028 (some of which is prepaid in 2025). Barring an injury, he’s getting the $21M in 2028. The big number is to do the extension for 2029 (just like ARSB $36M due in 2028). The agent probably wanted the inflated final year number.
