Field Yates of ESPN reports that while Eagles C Jason Kelce continues to weigh whether he’ll return for the 2023 season, the Eagles recently paid $3 million in bonuses to the veteran.
Kelce was owed a $2.75M roster bonus along with $250K offseason bonus this year. Yates says that the cap impact for the Eagles amounted to $2.4M in 2023 cap space.
Kelce plans to take some time to decide whether he’ll play again or call it a career and retire.
Kelce, 35, is a former sixth-round pick of the Eagles back in 2011. He was entering the sixth year of his seven-year, $40.11 million contract when he agreed to an extension with the Eagles in 2019 that paid him an annual salary of $11 million.
He then signed a one-year deal with the Eagles worth up to $12 million in March of 2021. He signed another one-year, $14 million deal for 2022.
In 2022, Kelce appeared in and started all 17 games for the Eagles at center. Pro Football Focus rated him as the No. 2 center out of 38 qualifying players.
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