Houston Texans, Laremy Tunsil agree to 3-year, $75 million extension as NFL's top-paid tackle
The Houstons Texans have signed OT Laremy Tunsil to a three-year, $75 million contract extension with $50 million fully guaranteed. The deal makes Tunsil, who represented himself during negotiations, the highest-paid OT in NFL history, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.
The former Ole Miss star’s contact was in need of renegotiation after the Texans restructured his deal last year to turn his $17.85 million salary into a $16.815 million bonus. His salary for last season was $1.035 million before it was set to jump back up to $18.5 million for 2023. Now, he’s going to be making even more.
Tunsil reacted to his new massive contract with an all-time great clip:
Tunsil, 28, is now heading into his fifth season with the Texans. After he went No. 13 overall in the 2016 NFL Draft, the Miami Dolphins negotiated a hefty trade with the Texans for the former first-round product after his third season in the league. The trade included Houston getting the left tackle and wide receiver Kenny Stills while the Dolphins got a 2021 1st round pick, a 2020 1st round pick, and a 2021 2nd round pick.
The Dolphins went on to use, and move those draft picks around and ended up creating their offensive core of Tua Tagovailoa, Jaylen Waddle and Tyreek Hill.
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More on the 2023 NFL offseason, free agency
The NFL 2023 calendar year is set to begin at 4 p.m. ET on March 15 when contracts running through 2022 will officially run out, making those players free agents. Prior to the beginning of free agency, teams will have a chance to designate one franchise or transition tag player, starting on Feb. 21 at 4 p.m. ET and ending on March 7. Beginning March 13 through March 15 teams will be allowed a legal negotiation with players who are set to become unrestricted free agents.
In addition to NFL free agency, the new year also marks the beginning of all trades being made official by the league office. April 21 marks the deadline to sign restricted free agents to offer sheets while April 26 marks the deadline for teams to match restricted free agent offers sheets. 722 players are slated to become free agents in 2023.
More on restricted, exclusive rights free agents
Players with only three years of accredited NFL experience become restricted free agents. Their original team will have the option to apply first-round, second-round, original-round, and right-of-fight-of-first-refusal tenders on players at escalating price tags. The higher the round, the more expensive the tender amount; however, if a separate team does offer a contract and the original team does not match that round pick will be conveyed from the new team to the original team. Right of first refusal only gives a team the option to match or not. If they don’t match, they get nothing in return. An original-round tender would send a draft pick from whatever round the player was drafted back to the original team if they chose not to match. The original team will have five days to match once a player signs an offer sheet from a new team.