NFL team owners have completed a contract extension with commissioner Roger Goodell, just as they’d expected.
The new four-year extension will keep Goodell in place through at least March 2031, when he will be 72, and ensure he oversees negotiations on the next set of broadcasting deals and a collective bargaining agreement with players that could include an 18-game season.
Financial terms of the owners’ new deal with Goodell were not available. But Patriots owner Robert Kraft, the chairman of the owners’ compensation committee that negotiated the extension with Goodell, told fellow owners in a memo obtained by Front Office Sports that the compensation package in the deal is tied almost entirely to performance metrics.
Goodell has served as commissioner since being elected by the owners in 2006 to succeed Paul Tagliabue. Some sources have told FOS in recent months that this might not necessarily be Goodell’s final contract extension as commissioner, although some owners have said in the past they need to begin contemplating potential succession plans for when Goodell finally exits the job.
The league confirmed the extension and said all NFL owners were informed of it by the compensation committee on Sunday. The deal officially expires on March 31, 2031.
