Runner Aaron Jones has reached an agreement with the Green Bay Packers in a four-year deal worth $ 48 million, including a $ 13 million bond, agent Drew Rosenhaus told ESPN’s Adam Schefter .
“We anticipated bigger free agency deals, but Aaron wanted to stay with the Packers,” Rosenhaus told ESPN.
The Packers decided not to use their franchise label on Jones before the deadline to do so last Tuesday, and instead continued talks about a long-term contract.
Jones tweeted “let’s run it again” on Sunday.
Let’s run it again🧀 #GoPackGo pic.twitter.com/wW20Xti3QR
– Aaron Jones 3️⃣3️⃣ (@ Showtyme_33) March 14, 2021
He also said, “I’m glad to be able to keep playing where I started my career” on Instagram Live.
Jones, selected for the fifth round by the Packers outside of UTEP in 2017, finished fourth in the NFL last season with 1,104 running yards despite losing two games with a calf injury. He made his first Pro Bowl, becoming the smallest packers to retire from Dorsey Levens (also a fifth-round pick) in 1997 to do so.
It was Jones ’second consecutive 1,000-yard season. He ran 1,084 yards and led the NFL with 19 touchdowns in 2019. Including this season’s playoffs, he scored 23 times, most for one season in team history.
Jones, 26, is one of two players in NFL history who posted more than 3,000 rushing yards (3,364) and more than 35 rushing touchdowns (37), averaging more than 5 yards per carry. (5.2) in his first four seasons. Jim Brown is the other.
The Packers have been in contractual talks with Jones since February 2020. Late last season, Jones, who was frustrated with the lack of guaranteed money the team offered, changed agents and hired Rosenhaus. At the time, the Packers had offered Jones a deal that would have paid him among the top five NFL runners in terms of average per year, a source told ESPN, but not with guaranteed money.
The Packers hired runner AJ Dillon in the second round last year as insurance against the loss of Jones and / or Jamaal Williams, who was also entering the final year of his contract.