{"id":518890,"date":"2026-01-15T22:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/518890\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T22:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:13:10","slug":"report-giants-are-expected-to-give-five-year-100-million-deal-to-john-harbaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/518890\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Giants are expected to give five-year $100 million deal to John Harbaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rumors making the rounds<\/a> on Monday reportedly were true.<\/p>\n

Jordan Schultz reports that the contract between the Giants and incoming coach John Harbaugh is expected to be worth five years, at $20 million per year<\/a>. That\u2019s $100 million over five years.<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s what happens, times have changed in the NFL. Eight years ago, the 10-year, $100 million contract<\/a> between the Raiders and Jon Gruden raised eyebrows.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s overdue. For a good coach, $20 million per year is a bargain. (The Jets paid that to quarterback Justin Fields, on a two-year contract.) And, frankly, it\u2019s possible that Harbaugh will get more than $20 million per year; teams sometimes use related companies to funnel extra cash to a head coach. Because there\u2019s no salary cap, there\u2019s no prohibition against off-the-books payments to coaches.<\/p>\n

And because there\u2019s no transparency in coaching contracts, it\u2019s impossible to know exactly what any of them make.<\/p>\n

Some believe that certain owners want to keep coaching costs down. It seems, without having full access to all current or historical contracts, that coaching salary hasn\u2019t grown at the same rate as player pay and the salary cap.<\/p>\n

Regardless of any temptation to collude, Harbaugh had the leverage to get even more than $20 million, if that\u2019s what he ends up getting. He didn\u2019t seem to be interested, however, in playing one team against another in order to get the best possible deal. He seemed to want to find the right place to thrive.<\/p>\n

Of the various openings in the current cycle, he may have done it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rumors making the rounds on Monday reportedly were true. Jordan Schultz reports that the contract between the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":518891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-518890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115901419102662187","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}