Aaron Jones has reached an agreement with the Green Bay Packers on a four-year deal worth $ 48 million, including a $ 13 million signing bonus, agent Drew Rosenhaus told Adam Schefter of ESPN.
“I anticipated bigger offers in the free agency, but Aaron wanted to stay with the Packers,” Rosenhaus told ESPN.
The Packers decided not to use the franchise label on Jones before the deadline to do so last Tuesday, and instead continued discussions about a long-term contract.
Jones wrote on Twitter “let’s run it back” on Sunday.
Let’s roll it back #GoPackGo pic.twitter.com/wW20Xti3QR
– Aaron Jones 3️⃣3️⃣ (@ Showtyme_33) March 14, 2021
He also said: “I’m glad I could continue playing where I started my career” on Instagram Live.
Jones, selected in the fifth round of the UTEP Packers in 2017, finished fourth in the NFL last season with 1,104 yards in a hurry, despite missing two games with a calf injury. He made his first Pro Bowl – becoming the lowest Packers who ran from the Dorsey Levens (also a fifth-round pick) in 1997 to do just that.
It was Jones’ second consecutive 1,000-meter season. He rushed for 1,084 yards and led the NFL with 19 touchdowns in 2019. Including in the playoffs that season, he scored 23 times, the most for a season in the team’s history.
Jones, 26, is one of two players in NFL history to post more than 3,000 yards (3,364) and 35 points (37), averaging 5 yards. (5.2) in the first four seasons. Jim Brown is the other.
Packers had been in contractual talks with Jones since February 2020. At the end of last season, Jones, who was frustrated by the lack of money guaranteed by the team, changed agencies and hired Rosenhaus. At the time, the Packers offered Jones a deal that would have paid him among the top five NFL players on average per year, a source told ESPN, but not in guaranteed money.
The Packers retired AJ Dillon in the second round last year as insurance against the loss of Jones and / or Jamaal Williams, who is also entering the final year of his contract.