{"id":480082,"date":"2024-03-11T16:57:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T20:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=480082"},"modified":"2024-03-11T16:57:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T20:57:03","slug":"raiders-to-ink-dt-wilkins-to-4-year-110-million-dollar-contract","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/raiders-to-ink-dt-wilkins-to-4-year-110-million-dollar-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders to ink DT Wilkins to 4-year, 110 million dollar contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent DT <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/christian-wilkins\/\">Christian Wilkins<\/a> is inking a 4-year, 110 million dollar contract that features almost 85 million dollars guaranteed with Las Vegas Raiders, agent David Mulugheta shared with media today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Splash: One of the top free agents is off the market, as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dolphins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Dolphins<\/a> star DT Christian Wilkins is headed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Raiders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Raiders<\/a>, sources say.<\/p>\n<p>He gets a 4-year deal worth $110M base value that includes $84.75M guaranteed in a contract done by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidMulugheta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DavidMulugheta<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AthletesFirst?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AthletesFirst<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aKwKFIfU5T\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/aKwKFIfU5T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1767239925072576633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Christian, a 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round selection in 2019, became a starter during his rookie campaign with the Miami Dolphins and started 77 matches during his 1<sup>st<\/sup> 5 campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Wilkins made 98 tackles to set a single-campaign National Football League record for a DT. Since becoming part of the NFL, Christian, 28, has been 1 of the best run-stoppers in the league at his position, and his almost 40% run stop win rate since 2019 ranks 8<sup>th<\/sup> among qualified DTs.<\/p>\n<p>The defensive tackle and Miami didn\u2019t agree about a deal extension during the 2022 offseason. Dolphins main concern was his lack of success as a pass-rusher (11.5 sacks) compared to other elite defensive tackles.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkins was much better in that component in the past campaign, tallying a career-high 9 sacks, which was 4<sup>th<\/sup> in the NFL among players in his position.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udcca Christian Wilkins career as a Dolphin:<\/p>\n<p>\u2796 5 seasons<br \/>\n\u2796 81 games<br \/>\n\u2796 355 total tackles<br \/>\n\u2796 43 TFLs<br \/>\n\u2796 50 QB hits<br \/>\n\u2796 20.5 sacks<br \/>\n\u2796 Single-season NFL record for most tackles by a DT<\/p>\n<p>Leader. Captain. Culture-setter. Thank you for everything, CW. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FinsUp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FinsUp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jRE9cQJOBu\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/jRE9cQJOBu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GzFzBWOztK\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/GzFzBWOztK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FinsXtra (@FinsXtra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FinsXtra\/status\/1767242815837249913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent DT Christian Wilkins is inking a 4-year, 110 million dollar contract that features almost 85 million dollars guaranteed with Las Vegas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":480083,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16755,17324],"news_category":[16703,14084],"gn_keywords":[22753,18120,17873],"acf":{"announce":"Las Vegas is signing the free-agent defensive tackle to 4 years deal.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480082"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480090,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480082\/revisions\/480090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480082"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=480082"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=480082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}