{"id":1051653,"date":"2024-03-12T10:45:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T16:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1051653"},"modified":"2024-03-12T10:47:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T16:47:41","slug":"former-alabama-star-lands-biggest-guard-contract-in-nfl-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/former-alabama-star-lands-biggest-guard-contract-in-nfl-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Alabama Star Lands Biggest Guard Contract in NFL History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_caption\">(Photo by Daniel Dunn\/Icon Sportswire)<\/div>\n<p>With NFL free agency opening up this week, players across the league are signing life changing deals for higher and higher amounts as the salary cap rises.<\/p>\n<p>Former Alabama center and current Philadelphia Eagle Landon Dickerson is the latest, landing a four-year deal worth up to a maximum of $87 million, with at least $50 million guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>The contract is the biggest in NFL history for a guard.<\/p>\n<p>Dickerson, who moved to left guard upon his arrival to Philadelphia, has quickly developed into one of the best in football. He is already a 2x pro bowler and was rated as the top interior lineman in the league on running plays,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/39707298\/sources-eagles-make-landon-dickerson-highest-paid-guard-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per ESPN\u2019s run-block win rate<\/a>\u00a0along with being 4th overall in the league on passing plays.<\/p>\n<p>Dickerson was a key piece of Alabama\u2019s record-setting 2020 offense, winning the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rimingtontrophy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rimington Trophy<\/a>\u00a0as the nation\u2019s best center along with being named as a unanimous All-American.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama\u2019s 2020 offensive line also won the Joe Moore Award, given to the best unit in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Dickerson suffered a season-ending injury late during the 2020 season, but still dressed for the national championship game against Ohio State and took the final snap of the season, a kneel-down to clinch Alabama\u2019s 18th title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>(Photo by Daniel Dunn\/Icon Sportswire) With NFL free agency opening up this week, players across the league are signing life changing deals for higher and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/former-alabama-star-lands-biggest-guard-contract-in-nfl-history\/\" title=\"Former Alabama Star Lands Biggest Guard Contract in NFL History\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4874,"featured_media":1051654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,91,147,206],"tags":[170,225,24,1144,227,212],"class_list":{"0":"post-1051653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crimson-tide-bama-tide","8":"category-alabama","9":"category-featured-news","10":"category-nfl","11":"tag-alabama","12":"tag-alabama-crimson-tide","13":"tag-alabama-football","14":"tag-eagles","15":"tag-landon-dickerson","16":"tag-nfl"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DGQ191012108_ALA_at_TAMU.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051655,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051653\/revisions\/1051655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1051654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}