Sources - NFL owners expected to finalize Roger Goodell extension

Roger Goodell and NFL owners are expected to finalize a multi-year contract extension for the commissioner at next week's owners meetings in Phoenix, league sources told ESPN.

The NFL's compensation committee is slated to present the proposed extension to team owners during a special privileged session Tuesday afternoon. Only one member from each team is permitted in that meeting.

Goodell's extension has been in the works since last season, when the compensation committee was granted permission by the full membership to get an extension done, according to sources. The sides have discussed a three-year extension, according to sources, but no length of time is agreed to yet.

The NFL has declined comment.

The economic framework of Goodell's new deal is not known but is expected to be incentive-laden and, considering the league's financial success, the most lucrative deal ever given to any commissioner in any sport.

This is the fourth extension for Goodell, who took over for Paul Tagliabue on Sept. 1, 2006; the previous extensions came in 2009, 2012 and 2017.

The process leading to this extension appears to have gone considerably more smoothly than the last one in 2017, when Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones threatened a lawsuit before the league eventually fined him for his legal threats. That deal took effect in 2019.

Since then, Goodell has helped finalize a collective bargaining agreement that has brought continued labor peace and a new $100-plus billion media rights deal with CBS, NBC, Fox, ESPN and Amazon that makes the NFL the envy of other leagues. The NFL also has a multi-billion dollar streaming deals with YouTube for its Sunday Ticket package of games.

Additionally, the NFL played its full slate of games during the