{"id":485756,"date":"2024-07-29T13:23:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T17:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485756"},"modified":"2024-07-29T13:23:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T17:23:03","slug":"lions-starting-left-tackle-decker-reaches-60-million-dollar-extension","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lions-starting-left-tackle-decker-reaches-60-million-dollar-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions starting left tackle Decker reaches 60 million dollar extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Decker, the longest-tenured footballer for the Detroit Lions, has agreed to a 3-year extension.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The 3-year, $60 million extension for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lions?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Lions<\/a> LT Taylor Decker comes with no surprise. <\/p>\n<p>GM Brad Holmes is not only keeping his core around, but rewarding the veterans that were here during Detroit\u2019s darkest days.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Deck \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffb\ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0AGLWtdX4v\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0AGLWtdX4v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Natalie Sparbeck (@NatSparbeck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NatSparbeck\/status\/1817907929863086567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The LT reached an agreement on a 3-season, 60 million dollar extension that features almost 32 million dollars guaranteed his agent confirmed with the media today.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit GM Brad Holmes also revealed the deal today but didn\u2019t give any additional information.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor (29) was starting the last campaign of a contract scheduled to pay him almost 14 million dollars. The left tackle is now under deal through the 2027 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit has inked both of their starting offensive tackles to extensions during the offseason. A few months ago, the franchise inked starting right tackle Penei Sewell to a 4-year, 112 million dollar extension.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit picked Decker with the 16<sup>th<\/sup> overall selection at the draft in 2016 out of Ohio State. Taylor 112 starts are 32 more than any other Detroit footballer during that period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Decker, the longest-tenured footballer for the Detroit Lions, has agreed to a 3-year extension. The 3-year, $60 million extension for #Lions LT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":485757,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16776,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18736,17873,23215],"acf":{"announce":"Detroit's starting LT secured a 60M dollar extension.","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\/485756"}],"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=485756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485758,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485756\/revisions\/485758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485756"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485756"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}