{"id":203075,"date":"2020-07-07T07:50:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T12:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=203075"},"modified":"2020-07-07T07:50:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T12:50:49","slug":"mahomes-extension-worth-503-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=203075","title":{"rendered":"Mahomes extension worth $503-million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-190911\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mahomes-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mahomes-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mahomes-325x175.jpg 325w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mahomes.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Kansas City\u00a0\u00a0 (AP)\u00a0 The Kansas City Chiefs made sure they\u2019ll have Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes around as long as possible. Mahomes agreed to a 10-year extension worth up to $503 million, according to his agency, Steinberg Sports. The deal is worth $477 million in guarantee mechanisms and includes a no-trade clause and opt-out clauses if guarantee mechanisms aren\u2019t met.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the richest contract in professional sports history, surpassing Mike Trout\u2019s $426.5 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels.The Chiefs had the 2018 NFL MVP under contract for the next two seasons but that wasn\u2019t nearly enough.<\/p>\n<p>The contract extension starts in 2022 when the NFL salary cap is projected to be $227.5 million. However, that number could be lower depending on revenue losses due to the cornonavirus pandemic and the possibility any games played this season won\u2019t have fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City\u00a0\u00a0 (AP)\u00a0 The Kansas City Chiefs made sure they\u2019ll have Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes around as long as possible. Mahomes agreed to a 10-year extension worth up to $503 million, according to his agency, Steinberg Sports. The deal is worth $477 million in guarantee mechanisms and includes a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":190917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203076,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203075\/revisions\/203076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/190917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}