Raiders lock in Geno Smith past 2025 season with 2-year extension: reports

The Las Vegas Raiders are not conscionable committing to Geno Smith for the 2025 season, they are going beyond arsenic they agreed to a two-year, $75 cardinal extension, according to aggregate reports. 

The Raiders traded for Smith earlier this offseason, reuniting the seasoned gunslinger with his aged Seattle Seahawks caput coach, Pete Carroll, who took implicit the occupation successful Sin City. 

The 34-year-old had 1 twelvemonth near connected his Seahawks contract, leaving galore to judge Smith could possibly beryllium a stopgap enactment earlier a younger, franchise-type subordinate joins the quarterbacks room. 

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Seahawks moving backmost Kenneth Walker III (9) celebrates with backmost Geno Smith (7) and teammates during against the Los Angeles Rams successful Seattle connected Nov. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

However, the Raiders are giving Smith $66.5 cardinal successful guaranteed money, per ESPN, and the full of the woody could propulsion to $85.5 cardinal with incentives. This each means Smith is locked successful for the adjacent fewer seasons arsenic the Raiders purpose to get backmost into the playoffs. 

Smith is present contractually attached to the Raiders done the 2027 campaign. 

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He volition play connected the $31 cardinal woody that was near successful Seattle’s declaration with him successful 2025, and the Raiders sent a third-round prime to get him earlier escaped bureau began. Since then, Sam Darnold has filled Smith’s void successful Seattle, arsenic helium is acceptable to beryllium their franchise backmost now. 

The Raiders were ever successful the marketplace for a backmost aft Gardner Minshew and Aidan O’Connell didn’t enactment retired successful divided duties successful 2024. Minshew besides moved on, signing with the Kansas City Chiefs to beryllium Patrick Mahomes’ backup adjacent season. 

Minshew’s pending escaped bureau paved the mode to possibly springiness O’Connell a wide changeable astatine the starting role, but helium hasn’t proved to beryllium acceptable for that aft a roller-coaster archetypal 2 seasons successful the NFL. 

Seattle Seahawks caput manager Pete Carroll talks with backmost Geno Smith. (Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports)

With Smith aboard, Carroll’s Raiders tin vie close distant successful a pugnacious AFC West division. And he’s coming disconnected not conscionable his champion play but a record-breaking 1 for the Seahawks.

Smith acceptable a caller squad passing yards grounds for a azygous play with 4,320, and his 70.4% completion complaint for the twelvemonth was besides a record. He threw for 21 touchdowns, though helium volition privation to get those 15 interceptions down successful 2025. 

Seattle ended up going 10-7, and that would’ve been a playoff twelvemonth successful past seasons, but the Seahawks conscionable missed the postseason. 

But Carroll knows conscionable what Smith tin bring to an discourtesy aft Smith was a two-time Pro Bowl backmost with the Seahawks portion helium was coaching. Smith was a journeyman who flamed retired with past organizations, including the New York Jets, which drafted him. 

Seattle Seahawks backmost Geno Smith throws a walk during the archetypal fractional against the Los Angeles Rams, Jan. 5, 2025, successful Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

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However, Smith has proven to get the occupation done erstwhile fixed the due tools to tally an offense, and that’s what Carroll hopes tin hap successful twelvemonth 1 successful Las Vegas. It’s not conscionable 1 year, though, arsenic Smith is locked successful for seasons aft 2025.

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