Lamar Jackson is remaining with the Baltimore Ravens. p=""> On Thursday afternoon, the Ravens announced they had agreed on a five-year contract extension with the 2019 NFL MVP.
The agreement is worth $260 million, a source told ESPN's Jamison Hensley, which makes Jackson the highest-paid player in the league at $52 million per year.
Speculation had run rampant over the past few months over whether Jackson would stay after he demanded a trade, with the Ravens mulling picking a quarterback in the first round of the NFL draft and signing Odell Beckham Jr.
to a one-year deal. That's all over now, as Jackson seems happy about his new contract. «For the last few months, there's been a lot of he said, she said,'' Jackson said in a video the Ravens posted on Twitter. „A lot of nail-biting.