Las Vegas raiders will have Geno Smith under contract for the next three seasons after the quarter-rear agreed with a new two-year extension on Thursday.
Smith will sign an agreement worth 85.5 million dollars with 66.5 million dollars guaranteed, which makes him a raider until 2027.
Tom Brady’s raiders exchanged for the Seattle quarterrier in March in a move that sees Smith ending up with former head coach Pete Carroll.
The 34 -year -old man arrived in Vegas with a year to follow a three -month contract with $ 31 million.
The initiate of the NFL, Ian Rapoport, was the first to report the two -year extension of Smith.
The arrival of Smith is the off -competition movement in an offseason of upheavals in Vegas that the seventh time the winner of the Super Bowl, Brady, led.
Geno Smith found former coach Pete Carroll in Las Vegas Raiders in March
In addition to recruiting both Smith and Carroll, Brady also presented a new 106.5 million dollars agreement over three years for defensive star Maxx Crosby.
Reconstruction will continue to the draft of the NFL in Green Bay later this month, where the raiders hold the choice n ° 6 and should largely opt for the ball carrier Ashton Jeanty.
The raiders endured a miserable campaign of 2024, missing the playoffs with a terrible file of 4-13 in the AFC West.
Antonio Piece was dismissed while head coach and managing director Tom Telesco quickly followed him from the exit door while Brady drew the rank.
The quarter-Arrière Gardner Minshew also left the team and signed for the Rivals of the AFC West Kansas City Chiefs, where he will provide a backup to Patrick Mahmes.
Smith, on the other hand, was selected by New York Jets in the third round of the 2013 NFL draft, spending two years as an inconsistent starter.
He rebounded around the league with the giants and the loaders before finding a new breath in Seattle after being exchanged in 2019.
He succeeded Russell Wilson as leaving in 2022 and posted career statistics, launching 4,282 yards and a TD-INT 30-11 report.
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