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Washington Commanders<\/a> star wide receiver Terry McLaurin<\/a> finally agreed to terms on a new contract this week, signing a three-year deal worth up to $96-million. McLaurin’s new AAV of $32 million will tie him with A.J. Brown<\/a> in being the No. 6 highest-paid wide receiver in the NFL<\/a> when the extension kicks in.<\/p>\n McLaurin, who turns 30 next month, landed a deal large enough to spark surprise in NFL circles. Some analysts believed he would sign more in the neighborhood of $28 million to $30 million per year, but the former third-round pick out of Ohio State got more. If there’s a winner from this McLaurin vs. Commanders showdown, it was clearly the wide receiver.<\/p>\n The Commanders may have caved and given McLaurin a bit more money than they initially anticipated because they were very much ready to have him back in the fold. According to The Athletic<\/a>, Washington was “very concerned” about what its offense would look like without McLaurin.<\/p>\n Quarterback Jayden Daniels<\/a> is the headliner when it comes to Washington’s offense, but the Commanders are not a Super Bowl<\/a> contender without their No. 1 wide receiver. McLaurin caught 82 passes last season for 1,096 yards and a franchise-record 13 touchdowns. He has been the lone consistent bright spot for what was a losing franchise until this past season.\u00a0<\/p>\n McLaurin cleared 900 yards receiving in all six of his NFL seasons, including five straight 1,000-yard campaigns. He accomplished this while catching passes from what feels like dozens of different quarterbacks, a list which includes Garrett Gilbert<\/a>, Colt McCoy<\/a>, Kyle Allen<\/a>,\u00a0Jacoby Brissett<\/a>, Carson Wentz<\/a>, Case Keenum<\/a> and Sam Howell<\/a> just to name a few.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Commanders added\u00a0Deebo Samuel<\/a> and drafted Jaylin Lane<\/a>, but they wouldn’t be able to make up for what McLaurin brings to this offense as the unquestioned top pass-catcher. Washington has legitimate Super Bowl aspirations entering 2025, which is why Adam Peters and Co. made the decision to pay McLaurin the contract they did.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Washington Commanders star wide receiver Terry McLaurin finally agreed to terms on a new contract this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[5831,427,7291,7,734,873,6,7756,7186,855,111,10421,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-318968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-aj-brown","9":"tag-commanders","10":"tag-dan-quinn","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-jayden-daniels","13":"tag-nfc-east","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-nfl-schedule","16":"tag-terry-mclaurin","17":"tag-washington","18":"tag-washington-commanders","19":"tag-washington-commanders-news","20":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115095090588657164","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318968","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=318968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}