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Amari Cooper Contract Details: Browns WR Restructures Deal
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Cleveland Browns wide receiver Amari Cooper has a new deal for the 2024 season. View Amari Cooper’s new contract details below.
Amari Cooper Contract Details
Source: Browns WR Amari Cooper is getting a $5 million raise while the team also is guaranteeing him the $20 million currently left on his contract. Cooper still will be entering the final year of his deal. It also means $80 million of the $100 million will have been guaranteed. pic.twitter.com/t80f1KY4mI
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) July 23, 2024
Per ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Cooper and the Browns have agreed to a restructured contract that guarantees his $20 million salary with a chance for an additional $5 million in incentives.
The Browns will give Cooper half of the guaranteed salary as a signing bonus.
Cooper is entering the final year of a five-year, $100 million contract he signed with the Dallas Cowboys in 2020. In March 2022, the Browns traded a 2022 fifth-round pick and a sixth-round pick swap to the Dallas Cowboys to acquire Cooper.
As a result of the increasing market for receivers, Cooper skipped the mandatory minicamp in hopes of signing a new contract.
With the restructured deal, Cooper makes $10 million in one day and gets a chance at the raise he desires. Cooper, 30, will still become an unrestricted free agent following the 2024-2024 season.
List of Highest-Paid Wide Receivers
A record deal: the Vikings and three-time Pro-Bowl WR Justin Jefferson reached agreement on a four-year, $140 million contract extension that includes $110 million guaranteed and makes him not only the highest-paid WR in NFL history, but the highest-paid non-QB in NFL history,… pic.twitter.com/OAESU3dOop
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) June 3, 2024
Per Over the Cap, Minnesota Vikings star Justin Jefferson has the highest average per year (APY) for wide receivers at $35 million.
Philadelphia’s A.J. Brown ($32 million), Detroit’s Amon-Ra St. Brown ($30.003), and Miami’s Tyreek Hill ($30 million) are the only other wide receivers with an APY of at least $30 million.
At $20 million per year, Cooper comes in tied for 21st with Tampa Bay’s Chis Godwin.
Cooper made his fifth Pro Bowl in 2023 after a productive season of 72 receptions, 1,250 yards (career high), and five touchdowns.