Roger Goodell contract extended: NFL commissioner’s new deal runs through spring of 2027 following approval

NEW YORK — It’s just right to be king. And for Roger Goodell, he’s going to be king a short time longer.

The NFL‘s reimbursement committee formally prolonged the commissioner’s contract Wednesday on the league’s fall conferences in New York. Goodell, who is been on the head of the league since 2006, is now contractually tied to the NFL through the spring of 2027.

And a couple of resources informed CBS Sports that it is probably not the ultimate contract for Goodell, who will flip 65 the week of Super Bowl LVIII.

“No, why would it be?” one supply requested incredulously.

Goodell’s contract was once prior to now set to run out in 2024. This deal has been within the works for just about a yr, and it’s been anticipated for months that the deal would get accomplished smartly forward of his contract expiring. He prior to now earned contract extensions in 2009, 2012 and 2017.

Goodell has weathered a bunch of controversies in his tenure. From Spygate to Bountygate, Ray Rice to Deflategate and the participant protests all through the nationwide anthem, Goodell has led the league — for higher or worse — through all of them.

The league could also be in a wholesome place lately. There’s not anything just about the aforementioned controversies going down within the NFL lately.

Goodell presides over a league that during 2020 signed a new collective bargaining settlement that runs through 2030. He additionally helped negotiate a $113 billion broadcast rights deal in 2021 that runs through 2033. Interestingly, there may be an opt-out for the league after seven years that will coincide with the new CBA.

Might Goodell depart after this three-year deal? He’ll be 68 years outdated, in any case. He’s reputedly in just right well being, and member golf equipment are making extra money lately than ever prior to.

It’s conceivable he would keep for every other time period and notice the league through every other CBA negotiation, which might be his 3rd as commissioner.

There isn’t any obtrusive successor to Goodell. Whereas he was once the transparent inheritor to the Paul Tagliabue throne within the early 2000s, that particular person in the back of Goodell does not exist lately.   

He’s one of probably the most robust figures in all of sports activities. At the tip of his new deal, Goodell would path best Pete Rozelle in phrases of years as NFL commissioner. Rozelle presided over the NFL from 1960 till 1989.

The reimbursement committee is chaired through Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft, and he is joined through Arizona’s Michael Bidwill, Cleveland’s Jimmy Haslam, Jacksonville’s Shad Khan and the Giants’ John Mara.