{"id":257960,"date":"2025-08-03T07:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T07:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/257960\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T07:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T07:14:11","slug":"broncos-extend-dl-zach-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/257960\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos Extend DL Zach Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"

10:31pm: Per OvertheCap.com<\/a>, $44.25MM of Allen\u2019s new extension is fully guaranteed at signing, including a $24MM signing bonus, his base salaries in 2025 ($2.49MM) and 2026 ($16.49MM), and per game roster bonuses in those seasons that will total $510K and $765K, respectively. $15.75MM will become fully guaranteed in March 2026, and the rest will guarantee in March of the following year.<\/p>\n

9:31am: The Broncos have agreed to terms with defensive lineman Zach Allen<\/a> on a four-year, $102MM extension, per ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter<\/a>. The team has since announced the extension.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It was reported back in March<\/a> that Allen was seeking an extension in the range of $25MM per year. His new contract meets that goal at a $25.5MM APY that ranks third among the NFL\u2019s interior defensive lineman, per OverTheCap<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Allen\u2019s deal also includes $69.5MM in guaranteed money, per Schefter, which would also rank third at the position in terms of total guarantees. If that number represents fully guaranteed money, it would set a new record for interior defensive linemen.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old may not be a household name, but his payday is appropriate after an excellent 2024 season. Allen recorded 8.5 sacks and 15 tackles for loss as a key anchor for a Broncos defense that finished third in points allowed and seventh in yards allowed. He also recorded 75 quarterback pressures, per Pro Football Focus (subscription required<\/a>), a mark that led all interior defensive lineman and trailed only four edge rushers.<\/p>\n

Allen earned a second-team All-Pro selection for his efforts last season, the first such recognition of his career. That gave him the leverage to seek an extension<\/a> as he entered the final year of the three-year, $45.75MM deal that brought him to Denver in 2023 in the first place. Allen\u2019s new deal represents a raise of more than $10MM per year and will keep him under contract through the 2028 season.<\/p>\n

The former Cardinals third-round pick effectively replaced Dre\u2019Mont Jones<\/a> in Denver, as the two relocated (Jones to Seattle) on Day 1 of the 2023 legal tampering period. Allen has been a lifer in DC Vance Joseph\u2018s scheme, arriving in Arizona during Joseph\u2019s first offseason running the Cards\u2019 defense. Weeks after Joseph returned to Denver, Allen followed. After a woeful start to the 2023 season, the Broncos\u2019 defense took big steps forward in 2024.<\/p>\n

Helping the Broncos to a third-place finish in scoring defense, Allen\u2019s 40 QB hits led the NFL and represented a top-10 mark for any season in the 2020s. That surge solidified a midcareer breakout, placing Allen in prime position to capitalize. The Broncos will go through with another reward, locking up two extension candidates this week.<\/p>\n

The Broncos, who got veteran wideout Courtland Sutton<\/a>\u2018s extension done on Monday<\/a>, will likely now turn their attention to negotiations with fourth-year edge rusher<\/a> Nik Bonitto<\/a>. Allen\u2019s primary partner in the trenches, John Franklin-Myers<\/a>, has also been pursuing a new contract after a career-high 7.0 sacks last year, but the Broncos have not engaged in contract talks to date<\/a>. After signing one defensive lineman to a nine-figure deal, Denver seems unlikely to give Franklin-Myers a market-level extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"10:31pm: Per OvertheCap.com, $44.25MM of Allen\u2019s new extension is fully guaranteed at signing, including a $24MM signing bonus,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,231,258,2426,7,8730,6,3571,1626],"class_list":{"0":"post-257960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-broncos","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-broncos","11":"tag-denverbroncos","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-newsstand","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-transactions","16":"tag-zach-allen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114963602869879118","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257960","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=257960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}