{"id":218908,"date":"2025-07-19T07:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/218908\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T07:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:35:10","slug":"new-contract-details-for-steelers-olb-t-j-watt-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/218908\/","title":{"rendered":"New Contract Details For Steelers OLB T.J. Watt Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Steelers reportedly agreed to terms on a three-year, $123 million contract extension with OLB T.J. Watt on Thursday and now the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/inside-the-new-t-j-watt-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">full details related to that deal<\/a> have surfaced courtesy of Pro Football Talk\u2019s Mike Florio.<\/p>\n<p>For starters, Watt\u2019s signing bonus for his extension is $40 million. His fully guaranteed new base salary for 2025 is $4 million. This results in Watt\u2019s 2025 salary cap charge being $23,368,694, which is down from $30,418,695.<\/p>\n<p>Watt\u2019s extension includes fully guaranteed base salaries in 2026 and 2027 of $32 million each. His salary cap charge for both of those years $42 million. For 2028, the final year of the deal, Watt has a non-guaranteed base salary of $21.05 million. He is also due a non-guaranteed March roster bonus in 2028 of $15 million. This results in his 2028 cap charge being $46.05 million.<\/p>\n<p>As far as new cash flow related to Watt\u2019s new contract, in 2025 that amount is $22.95 million as he had $21.05 million remaining on his previous contract. For 2026, the first new year of the deal, the new money cash flow is $54.95 million. In 2027, the second new year of Watt\u2019s deal, the new money cash flow is $86.95 million. The total new money cash flow through the end of the deal is $123 million.<\/p>\n<p>When the old money for Watt is considered, the total cash flow for Watt from 2025-2028 is $44 million, $76 million, $108 million, and $144.05 million, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, the first three years (2025-2027) are fully guaranteed for Watt. Watt\u2019s new money average is $41 million and that now makes him the highest paid non-quarterback in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tj-watt-contract-layout-2025.jpg\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"1736894175\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"831374\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-831381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tj-watt-contract-layout-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"767\" height=\"101\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers reportedly agreed to terms on a three-year, $123 million contract extension with OLB T.J. Watt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[4092,7,5745,6,520,57,2360,4070,7238,426,5226,691,1481],"class_list":{"0":"post-218908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-contract","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-mike-florio","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","14":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","15":"tag-pro-football-talk","16":"tag-salary-cap","17":"tag-steelers","18":"tag-t-j-watt","19":"tag-trending","20":"tag-weekly"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114878750909836352","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}