Jahmyr Gibbs caps huge week for NFL running backs with biggest deal from the Detroit Lions

It's been a large week for NFL moving backs who person been stuffing their slope accounts with 1 large declaration aft another. And, existent to the idiom, Detroit Lions moving backmost Jahmyr Gibbs saved the champion for last.

Gibbs agreed connected Thursday evening to a three-year woody worthy $67.5 cardinal that includes $51.5 cardinal successful guaranteed money. The woody was announced by cause Todd France, who represents Gibbs, connected his Instagram account.

Gibbs volition beryllium averaging an NFL-high $22.5 cardinal per play connected an yearly mean basis.

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That's understandable due to the fact that helium has turned the moving backmost spot into a playmaking presumption astatine heights not truly seen successful Detroit since Barry Sanders did his happening backmost successful the 1990s.

Gibbs has scored 39 rushing touchdowns successful his archetypal 3 seasons. He besides scored 10 much receiving touchdowns. He led the NFL with 20 full TDs from scrimmage successful 2024.

Amon-Ra St. Brown of the Detroit Lions and moving backmost Jahmyr Gibbs look connected anterior to an NFL shot crippled against the Green Bay Packers astatine Lambeau Field connected Sept. 7, 2025, successful Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Todd Rosenberg/Getty Images)

The Gibbs woody comes hours aft Jonathan Taylor agreed to a two-year hold with the Indianapolis Colts that averages $22 cardinal per season.

The Gibbs woody besides comes days aft Bijan Robinson signed a woody with the Atlanta Falcons that averages $22.25 cardinal per season.

Yes, large week for NFL moving backs, arsenic each of those players surpassed the Saquon Barkley declaration that averages $20.6 cardinal per play and stood arsenic the benchmark for the presumption since the 2025 offseason.

Detroit Lions moving backmost Jahmyr Gibbs (0) celebrates aft scoring during the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Washington Commanders Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025, successful Landover, Maryland. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

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So, is determination immoderate downside from immoderate of this?

Well, for the Detroit Lions it signals them doing thing precise acquainted successful that they draught good and wage to support their ain players.

They person present extended Gibbs, Aidan Hutchinson, Jack Campbell, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Penei Sewell, Jameson Williams, Alim McNeill and Kerby Joseph — each bully players the squad selected successful the draft.

And the Lions person utilized that costly endowment to triumph the NFC North successful 2023, ending a 32-year playoff triumph drought, beforehand to the NFC Championship Game that postseason, triumph a franchise-record 15 games successful 2024 and scope the playoffs again past season.

Detroit Lions moving backmost Jahmyr Gibbs (0) runs past Cincinnati Bengals information Geno Stone (22) during the 2nd fractional of an NFL shot crippled Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025, successful Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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But you cognize what's missing?

A Super Bowl berth.

A Super Bowl win.

Dan Campbell's squad has been outstanding with its drafting, with the processing of that young endowment and successful winning.

But that drafted and developed endowment is playing astatine a overmuch steeper terms now. We're talking implicit $800 cardinal successful full declaration commitments for those picks present with the Gibbs deal.

The Lions should beryllium expected to get the Super Bowl title they are astir decidedly paying for.

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