Carolina Panthers Make Luke Kuechly NFL's Highest-Paid Inside Linebacker

By Vincent Frank on Thursday, September 10th 2015
Carolina Panthers Make Luke Kuechly NFL's Highest-Paid Inside Linebacker

Mere hours before the 2015 NFL season is set to kick off, the Carolina Panthers took care of one of their own on Thursday by signing star linebacker Luke Kuechly to a massive five-year, $62 million extension. This allows Kuechly to surpass the extension that Seattle Seahawks linebacker Bobby Wagner signed last month. 

The average of $12.4 million makes Kuechly the highest-paid player at his position. In addition to this, he's now slated to make $27 million over the first two years of the deal, including a whopping $20 million this season. That $27 million total is nearly $14 million more than what he was slated to make in his previous deal. 

Kuechly, 24, has earned First-Team All-Pro and Pro Bowl honors in each of the past two seasons, winning the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year award back in 2013. He's coming off a 2014 campaign that saw him record 171 tackles, 13 passes defended, three sacks and an interception. 

 

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