HENDERSON, Nev. — The Las Vegas Raiders are giving three-time Professional Bowl defensive finish Maxx Crosby a $6 million elevate for the upcoming season with out including any years to his contract, league sources advised ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Thursday.
The Raiders are additionally transferring $1.2 million from his 2026 wage into the 2025 season, sources mentioned.
Crosby, a fourth-round draft decide of the Raiders in 2019 out of Jap Michigan, has change into the face of the franchise since signing a four-year extension with $95 million in new cash and greater than $53 million assured on March 11, 2022.
Since then, he has racked up 27 of his 52 profession sacks whereas twice ending within the high six of NFL Defensive Participant of the Yr voting and being named a second-team All-Professional final season, when he had a career-best 14.5 sacks. Crosby was a second-team All-Professional choice after the 2021 season and Professional Bowl defensive MVP in 2022.
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“I do not know whether or not my rookie 12 months looks like 20 years in the past or two days in the past,” Crosby mentioned at the beginning of Las Vegas’ offseason exercise program in April. “Like, it is loopy to me.
“However yeah, it has been a blessing. I imply, it has been a rattling journey, and for me, all that issues on the finish of the day is profitable, profitable for this group. I pour my coronary heart and soul into this, and I need to be the most effective chief and teammate I might be each day, and being a Raider is one thing that is particular to me. I’ve acquired actual relationships from the proprietor all the way in which all the way down to the janitor. I am right here each day for a cause. It is like a household. There’s not many groups that function like we do, and we have simply acquired to translate that to profitable, and it is simply thrilling to get issues rolling once more.”
Crosby, who turns 27 in August, was because of have base salaries of $19.01 million, $21.038 million and $21.038 million the following three seasons, based on ESPN Stats & Data.
It’s uncommon for a group to offer a participant a elevate with out including any further years to the contract. Crosby has been lauded for being a continuing presence on the group facility for offseason exercises.
“By instance, 6 a.m. to five p.m., each day,” coach Antonio Pierce mentioned on the homeowners conferences in March. “Daily [Crosby] reveals up able to work. So whenever you’ve acquired these varieties of men in your constructing, both vocally or by instance, you’ve got acquired a superb tradition and a superb place.”
Crosby additionally has served as an inspiration in going public together with his battle for sobriety since spending a part of the offseason following his rookie season in rehab.
