All-Pro cornerback Darrelle Revis and the New York Jets reached an agreement on a new contract, ending a seven-month impasse one week before the team’s season-opening game.
Revis, 25, sat out training camp and the preseason while seeking a deal that could make him the highest-paid cornerback in the National Football League. Jets General Manager Mike Tannenbaum confirmed the agreement during a conference call without disclosing contract details.
The New York Daily News said that Revis and the Jets came to terms on a four-year contract worth $ 46 million, including $ 32 million in guaranteed money.
“I’m sorry for this process and I can’t wait to get back on the field,” Revis said in a posting on his Twitter social networking account.
The breakthrough came after Jets coach Rex Ryan traveled to Florida over the weekend to meet with Revis and a week before the team hosts the Baltimore Ravens to open the regular season on Sept. 13. Ryan said last month that Revis would probably play Week 1 even if he didn’t rejoin the Jets until the day before the opener.
Revis had six interceptions last season while anchoring a Jets defense that made it to the American Football Conference title game allowing a league-low 252.3 yards a week.
Revis also led the league with 37 passes defended and finished second to Green Bay Packers cornerback Charles Woodson in voting for the NFL’s Defensive Player of the Year Award.
He was set to make $ 1 million in base pay this season in the fourth year of a six-year contract worth a total of $ 36 million. Revis asked for $ 162 million over 10 years, while the Jets offered $ 122 million for the same period, ESPN said.
Nnamdi Asomugha of the Oakland Raiders is the NFL’s highest-paid cornerback in terms of average value, with a three-year, $ 45.3 million contract.
The Jets and Revis’s representatives agreed last month to keep negotiations confidential after the two sides traded barbs in the media over their lack of progress.
To contact the reporter on this story: Erik Matuszewski in New York at matuszewski[at]bloomberg.net
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