Sources: Raiders adding Tyler Linderbaum, Jalen Nailor - ESPN
Free agent center Tyler Linderbaum reached agreement Monday on a record deal with the Las Vegas Raiders, who are awarding him with a three-year, $81 million deal that includes $60 million guaranteed and makes him the highest-paid interior offensive lineman in NFL history, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
The Raiders and wide receiver Jalen Nailor also agreed to a three-year, $35 million deal that includes $23 million guaranteed, agents Ken Sarnoff and Joe DiBenedetto told Schefter.
Linderbaum, 25, has quickly established himself as one of the best centers in the league.
He is the first Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman to go to three consecutive Pro Bowls (2023-25) since Marshal Yanda went to six straight from 2011 to 2016.
Since the Ravens drafted him in the first round in 2022, Linderbaum has the second-best pass block win rate at center (96.2%), ranking behind only the Kansas City Chiefs' Creed Humphrey (97.9%). Over that same time, Linderbaum's 71.2% run block win rate ranks seventh among centers.
Last season, Linderbaum was a major reason why the Ravens rushed for 156.6 yards per game, the second-best mark in the NFL, and produced a league-high 5.3 yards per carry.
Linderbaum became an unrestricted free agent because Baltimore declined to pick up his fifth-year option in April. It was a decision based on an unusually high financial commitment and not performance. His option was projected to be worth $23.4 million, which would have been $5.4 million more than the NFL's highest-paid center at the time in terms of average per year.
Baltimore selected Linderbaum with the No. 25 pick four years ago after it acquired that selection in a trade with the Arizona Cardinals for wide receiver Hollywood Brown. Linderbaum is


