{"id":649639,"date":"2026-01-03T02:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/649639\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T02:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:54:21","slug":"ravens-retain-veteran-nt-john-jenkins-on-2m-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/649639\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens retain veteran NT John Jenkins on $2M extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OWINGS MILLS, Md. \u2014 The Baltimore Ravens signed nose tackle John Jenkins to a one-year extension.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN senior NFL reporter Jeremy Fowler, the deal is worth approximately $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins, 36, signed his first career extension after being on 11 consecutive one-year deals throughout his NFL tenure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Man, I&#8217;m excited. I&#8217;m pretty sure y&#8217;all have done your jobs, [so you] know that I&#8217;ve been around the whole [United States]. Having my first extension in 13 years, I&#8217;m excited,&#8221; Jenkins said.<\/p>\n<p>This season, Jenkins has helped Baltimore establish a strong run defense that ranks 11th in the league. The team is allowing 107.1 rushing yards per game.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins has recorded 36 total tackles, one sack, one pass deflection, and two forced fumbles.<\/p>\n<p>The Ravens bring back a solid contributor for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OWINGS MILLS, Md. \u2014 The Baltimore Ravens signed nose tackle John Jenkins to a one-year extension. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,94468,94469,849,2282,7,94473,12304,94470,94471,6,169,94472,73244],"class_list":["post-649639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baltimore-ravens","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-baltimore-ravens-contract-extensions","tag-baltimore-run-defense","tag-baltimore-ravens-news","tag-baltimoreravens","tag-football","tag-how-much-is-the-john-jenkins-extension-worth","tag-john-jenkins","tag-john-jenkins-contract-extension","tag-john-jenkins-signs-extension-with-ravens","tag-nfl","tag-ravens","tag-ravens-sign-john-jenkins-to-an-extension","tag-wmar"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115828914001012734","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649639","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=649639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}