Jason Kelce’s contract
Jason Kelce’s contract was renewed for one year in 2023 at a value of $14.25 million, making him once again the highest-paid centers in the NFL, and has a net worth of approximately $40 million.
When Kelce signed in 2011, he penned a $712,477 deal with the Philadelphia Eagles which lasted until 2014. Then from 2014-2020, he resigned for six years, in a contract that was worth $6,250,000. In the following three-year deal, from 2019-2021, Kelce’s average annual salary was $8,166,667. 2022 and 2023 have featured one-year contracts likely because Kelce is, age-wise, nearing the end of his career—paying him $14 million and $14.25 million respectively.
On Sunday October 15, 2023, Kelce made Eagles history by stepping out onto the field in his 145th consecutive start. “He’s just tough as a shovel, just a tough dude,” his longtime teammate Lane Johnson told Sports Illustrated at the time. “I’ve seen him elbows, braces, knee braces, he’s been nicked up quite a bit throughout his career. But how he takes care of his body is really why he’s played so well for so long.” Johnson continued: “I think a lot of it just goes down to his demeanor. He doesn’t want to miss time or put a backup in and have that affect a team, so I feel like he really takes that to heart.”
The last time Kelce missed a start was Week 8 in 2014. “That’s big,” Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts said. “I haven’t even really thought about that, didn’t know about that, but he shows up and does what needs to be done to be ready to play. He’s a mentally tough person.”
While Kelce didn’t want to talk about the streak, he did explain what it takes to turn up and physically perform the way he has for eight years. “I’m just older now, so I gotta do more things now to get ready to play,” he said. “When you’re young, you don’t really gotta do much. You just go out there. Still not a big stretching fan, but now I kind of have to … In general, I try to do as little as I can to be at my best. I feel like if I do too much, it’s too much and then I don’t have fun and it’s not too beneficial.”
On The NFL Report podcast on October 27, Kelce at age 35 did talk about the possibility of retirement. “It is a lot, and I think the way we’ve justified it as a family is that this is going to be over pretty soon here,” Kelce said. “If it’s this year, which it very well could be, we want to make sure that we’re ready to go when football’s done, and we’re looking at all these different opportunities and things to figure out what it is we want to do in retirement.”
