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The Lions usually give their draft picks who panned out new contracts after three seasons. As to defensive end Aidan Hutchinson, the team wanted to sure he had recovered from last year's serious leg injury.

And so, after seven games and during the bye week, Hutchinson finally got his reward. It was better late than never for Hutchinson, who carried the injury risk for the first eight weeks of the 2025 season.

We've gotten the full details of the four-year extension, which makes it a five-and-a-half year contract. Here's the full and complete, no-fluff, no-BS, no-exaggerations-in-exchange-for-future-considerations terms:

1. Signing bonus: $15 million, with half paid within 30 days of signing and the other half paid by January 29, 2026.

2. Remaining 2025 base salary: $611,111, fully guaranteed.

3. 2026 option bonus: $28.407 million, fully guaranteed.

4. 2026 workout bonus: $250,000, fully guaranteed (but must be earned).

5. 2026 base salary: $1.215 million, fully guaranteed.

6. 2027 option bonus: $28.29 million, guaranteed for injury and fully guaranteed on the third day of the 2026 league year.

7. 2027 workout bonus: $250,000, guaranteed for injury at signing and fully guaranteed by the third day of the 2026 league year (but must be earned).

8. 2027 base salary: $1.26 million, guaranteed for injury at signing and fully guaranteed by the third day of the 2026 league year.

9. 2027 per-game roster bonus: $200,000 total, guaranteed for injury at signing and fully guaranteed by the third day of the 2026 league year (but must be earned).

10. Of the 2027 million compensation package,$10 million is fully guaranteed at signing. The rest becomes fully guaranteed on the third day of the 2026 league year.

10. 2028 option bonus: $28.245 million, guaranteed for injury at signing and fully guaranteed by the third day of the 2027 league year.

11. 2028 workout bonus: $250,000, guaranteed for injury at signing and fully guaranteed by the third day of the 2027 league year (but must be earned).

12. 2028 base salary: $1.305 million, guaranteed for injury at signing and fully guaranteed by the third day of the 2027 league year.

13. 2028 per-game roster bonus: $200,000 total, guaranteed for injury at signing and fully guaranteed by the third day of the 2027 league year (but must be earned).

14. 2029 option bonus: $20 million.

15. 2029 workout bonus: $250,000.

16. 2029 base salary: $29.55 million.

17. 2029 per-game roster bonus: $200,000 total.

18. Of the 2029 compensation, $35.428 million is guaranteed for injury at signing. Of that amount, $29 million becomes full guaranteed on the third day of the 2028 league year and the remaining $6.428 million becomes fully guaranteed on the third day of the 2029 league year.

19. 2030 option bonus: $20 million.

20. 2030 offseason roster bonus: $2.55 million.

21. 2030 workout bonus: $250,000.

22. 2030 base salary: $22 million.

23. 2030 per-game roster bonus: $200,000 total.

The new-money average is $45 million. Factoring in the old money due through 2026 ($20.483 million), the true average from signing is $33.413 million.

The contract pays out $200.483 million through 2030. Of that amount, $95 million — nearly half — lands in the final two years of the contract, with $105.483 million paid out in the first 3.5 seasons.

Hutchinson is guaranteed, as a practical matter, the $105.483 million through 2028, plus $29 million in 2029. That's $134.483 million.

The first realistic out for the Lions would be after the 2028 season. But they'd owe him $29 million for 2029, subject to offset. The last year of the contract, at a $45 million payout, has no guarantees.

As Raiders head coach Pete Carroll prepares to go against Jaguars head coach Liam Coen on Sunday, Carroll says his defense will be facing the NFL's premier offensive scheme.

Coen's first NFL job was as assistant wide receivers coach under Rams head coach Sean McVay, and Coen was then promoted up to the Rams' assistant quarterbacks coach and then offensive coordinator, also getting jobs calling plays at Kentucky and Tampa Bay before becoming the Jaguars' head coach this year. Carroll says the McVay offensive coaching tree is the best in football.

"He's got all of the good stuff that's going around the league," Carroll said. "The tree that he comes from is really the one I respect the most, in terms of innovation and creativity and really good fundamental aspects of their offense. He's representing all those guys. It's a big offense, they do a lot of stuff. You can't just zero in on this or that. They love to run the football, they're willing to stay with it when they can, the play action is good, The perimeter stuff off the running game is there. And they really trust the quarterback. They have a lot of downfield routes and concepts."

In addition to Coen, three of McVay's other offensive assistants are current NFL head coaches: Green Bay's Matt LaFleur, Cincinnati's Zac Taylor and Minnesota's Kevin O'Connell. McVay's success as a young offensive coach led to other NFL teams pursuing young offensive coaches, especially those who had coached under McVay.

Interestingly, though, when Carroll hired his own offensive coordinator in Las Vegas, he didn't pick from McVay's coaching tree. Instead, Carroll chose Chip Kelly, a 61-year-old who had developed his own innovative offensive approach long before McVay had ever even worked as an assistant coach. Carroll and Kelly haven’t always appeared to see eye-to-eye this year, so perhaps Carroll is wishing he had chosen a coordinator from the tree he respscts the most.