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HENDERSON, Nev. — Two years to the day after Maxx Crosby checked himself into a rehab facility for alcoholism, the Las Vegas Raiders’ Pro Bowl defensive end agreed to a multiyear extension with the team on Friday.
It is a four-year, $98.98 million deal with $95 million in new money and $53 million guaranteed, according to ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter.
“I want to be of service to other people going through whatever they’re going through right now,” Crosby said Friday. “It’s crazy. My fiancée sent me a picture [of myself from] two years ago today … the look on my face and how much different I looked, I didn’t even recognize that person. But just two years later, I have the ability to not only take care of myself forever, but my kids and my dogs.
“I came from a tough situation, but I just want to show people there that anything’s possible if you put your mind to it.”
Crosby, 24, was drafted by the Raiders in the fourth round of the 2019 draft (No. 106 overall) out of Eastern Michigan. The 6-foot-5, 255-pound Crosby had 10 sacks as a rookie, followed that up with seven more in 2020 and was named to his first Pro Bowl after racking up eight sacks last season, when Pro Football Focus had him leading the NFL with 100 pressures, the third most in a single season since 2006, behind T.J. Watt’s 119 pressures in 2014 and Aaron Donald’s 106 pressures in 2018. Crosby was then named the Pro Bowl’s defensive MVP after batting down three passes and getting a sack.
Locking up an edge rusher before the quarterback is a reversal of form from what the Raiders did in 2017, when Derek Carr was signed to a five-year, $125 million extension and the team expected Khalil Mack to play out the final year of his contract in 2018. Mack instead held out and was traded to the Chicago Bears before that season. Now, Carr is entering the final year of his deal and new coach Josh McDaniels, while saying Carr is his starter, acknowledged at the combine that no extension talks with the quarterback…
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