Jonathan Taylor’s new deal with the Colts is officially here and he managed to score a record-setting mark—on a technicality
The deed is done. Jonathan Taylor will remain with the Indianapolis Colts on a multi-year extension.
It’s football season! Not only in the sense that training camps are open and practices are back, but also in a completely different sense. The headlines are picking up. And it is officially Jonathan Taylor‘s turn.
He and the Indianapolis Colts have, per reports, agreed to terms on a new, two-year extension to keep him in Indy for the foreseeable future. The first domino of this offseason fell when Miami RB De’Von Achane got extended. Then, Atlanta blew the lid off running back contracts with their recently announced deal with Bijan Robinson. Taylor didn’t match the money — but did get the last laugh in one way.
Jonathan Taylor agrees to a two-year, $44 million contract extension with the Indianapolis Colts
The surface level numbers behind the deal are pretty straight forward. They don’t set any records, either. The deal that Robinson signed with Atlanta has a higher total value, in large part because the contract has additional years of service left and a third new year, too.
But Taylor got his record-setting headline — on a technicality. Ian Rapoport put out that the total average of cash owed per season between his old and new years equates to $19 million per season. That is indeed a record. Taylor is in position to secure that benchmark because he was owed $13 million on the prior arrangement of his old contract for 2026. You have to add that money to the extension figures.
Robinson, in Atlanta, was originally scheduled to make $15 million…in 2026 and 2027 combined on the last two years of his rookie deal before getting to his new years and new money. Technicality? Yes. Still a record? Absolutely. Whether you buy it or not is up to you. But there’s one thing no one can argue: it’s a good day to be both men.
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