The feedback Aaron Jones reached an agreement with Green Bay Packers on a four-year deal worth $ 48 million, including a $ 13 million bonus, agent Drew Rosenhaus told Adam Schefter, ESPN.
“We were expecting bigger offers in free agencies, 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, but continued talks on a long-term contract.
Jones tweeted on Sunday ‘let’s run it back’.
Let’s run it back🧀 #GoPackGo pic.twitter.com/wW20Xti3QR
– Aaron Jones 3️⃣3️⃣ (@ Showtyme_33) 14 March 2021
He also said: “I’m just glad I was able to keep playing where I started my career” on Instagram Live.
Jones, a fifth-round pick by Packers from UTEP in 2017, finished fourth in the NFL last season with 1,104 running yards, despite missing two games with a calf injury. He made his first Pro Bowl – in 1997 he was the Packers’ lowest lineup since Dorsey Levens (also a fifth round) to do so.
It was Jones’ second rushing season at a 1,000-year-old level. He rushed to 1,084 yards and led the NFL with 19 touchdowns in 2019. Including the playoffs that season, he scored 23 times, the most for a season in team history.
Jones (26) is one of only two players in NFL history to place 3,000-yard rushing (3,364) and 35-plus rushdowns (37), averaging 5 plus yards per carry (5.2) in their first four seasons. Jim Brown is the other.
The Packers have been in contract talks with Jones since February 2020. Late last season, Jones, who became frustrated at the lack of guaranteed money the team offered, changed agent and hired Rosenhaus. At the time, the Packers Jones offered a deal that would pay him among the top five runs in the NFL in terms of average per year, a source told ESPN, but not in guaranteed money.
The Packers drafted AJ Dillon, the full-back, in the second round last year as insurance against the loss of Jones and / or Jamaal Williams, who also entered the last year of his contract.