{"id":483823,"date":"2024-06-03T16:49:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T20:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483823"},"modified":"2024-06-03T16:49:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T20:49:39","slug":"jefferson-inks-a-historical-contract-with-vikings","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jefferson-inks-a-historical-contract-with-vikings\/","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson inks a historical contract with Vikings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Vikings and superstar WR Justin Jefferson have agreed to a 4-year, 140 million dollar deal extension that features 110 million dollars guaranteed. The contract makes him the highest-paid non-QB in National Football League history.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Vikings and wide receiver Justin Jefferson have agreed to a 4-year contract extension valued at $140 million, with $110 million guaranteed. This deal makes Jefferson the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history. \ud83d\udcb0<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oNawWa4YLb\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/oNawWa4YLb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; OutOfSightSports\ud83d\ude80\u2122\ufe0f (@OOSSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OOSSports\/status\/1797687476364148945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The contract, which was negotiated by WME Football, features almost 89 million dollars due at inking. Minnesota shared today that the wide receiver agreed to an extension that runs through the 2028 campaign but did not provide any more details.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s finally that time. The contract I was dreaming of since I was a little kid,&#8221; Justin shared on social media. &#8220;Being doubted during my entire time in the NFL. Not being highly recruited. Not being the 1<sup>st<\/sup> receiver off the draft board. Every step on the way was very tough for me. &#8230; To be given a gift to play this game at the highest level is a blessing. I can\u2019t be more grateful for this chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota owners announced that the wide receiver has earned his deal and that they are happy that Jefferson will play for the organization in the upcoming years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Vikings and superstar WR Justin Jefferson have agreed to a 4-year, 140 million dollar deal extension that features 110 million dollars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483824,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21569,17167,17324],"news_category":[16703,14084],"gn_keywords":[21570,18175,17873],"acf":{"announce":"Justin and Minnesota agreed to a historic 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\/483823"}],"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=483823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483825,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483823\/revisions\/483825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483823"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483823"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}