inked a four-year, $110.5 million contract extension <\/a>with the Green Bay Packers earlier today. The deal included a $31 million signing bonus.<\/p>\nWatson will average $27.625 million per season, which ranks 15th among all NFL wideouts.<\/p>\n
Seattle\u2019s Jaxon Smith-Njigba, who signed a four-year, $168.6 million deal after last season, has the highest average salary per year at $42.15M. Cincinnati\u2019s Ja\u2019Marr Chase ($40.25M), Minnesota\u2019s Justin Jefferson ($35.0M), Dallas\u2019 CeeDee Lamb ($34.0M) and Pittsburgh\u2019s D.K. Metcalf ($33.0M) round out the top five.<\/p>\n
Watson falls right between Denver\u2019s Jaylen Waddle ($28.25M) and Buffalo\u2019s D.J. Moore ($27.5M).<\/p>\n
Interestingly, Watson now ranks ahead of former Packers Davante Adams ($22.0M with the Los Angeles Rams) and Romeo Doubs ($17.0M, New England).<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s how the top-20 wideouts rank, based on average salary per season:<\/p>\n
Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Seattle \u2014 $42.15M<\/p>\n
Ja\u2019Marr Chase, Cincinnati \u2014 $40.25M<\/p>\n
Justin Jefferson, Minnesota \u2014 $35.0M<\/p>\n
CeeDee Lamb, Dallas \u2014 $34.0M<\/p>\n
D.K. Metcalf, Pittsburgh \u2014 $33.0M<\/p>\n
Garrett Wilson, New York Jets \u2014 $32.5M<\/p>\n
A.J. Brown, New England \u2014 $32.0M<\/p>\n
Amon-Ra St. Brown, Detroit \u2014 $32.0M<\/p>\n
Brandon Aiyuk, San Francisco \u2014 $30.0M<\/p>\n
Nico Collins, Houston \u2014 $30.0M<\/p>\n
Terry McLaurin, Washington \u2014 $29.0M<\/p>\n
Tee Higgins, Cincinnati \u2014 $28.75M<\/p>\n
Alec Pierce, Indianapolis \u2014 $28.5M<\/p>\n
Jaylen Waddle, Denver \u2014 $28.25M<\/p>\n
Christian Watson, Green Bay \u2014 $27.625M<\/p>\n
D.J. Moore, Buffalo \u2014 $27.5M<\/p>\n
George Pickens \u2014 $27.3M<\/p>\n
Jameson Williams, Detroit \u2014$26.67M<\/p>\n
DeVonte Smith, Philadelphia \u2014 $25.0M<\/p>\n
Courtland Sutton, Denver \u2014 $23.0M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green Bay Packers wide receiver Christian Watson signed a four-year, $110.5 million deal Thursday that makes him the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1121,1501,7,345,8633,2869,2780,6],"class_list":["post-910104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ceedee-lamb","tag-christian-watson","tag-football","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-jamarr-chase","tag-jaxon-smith-njigba","tag-justin-jefferson","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116694091294938263","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910104","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=910104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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