Broncos, WR Courtland Sutton agree to four-year, $92 million extension, per sources

Parker Gabriel and Luca Evans, The Denver Post on Jul 28, 2025

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DENVER — Sean Payton wasn’t kidding.

Just about an hour after he said the Broncos and top receiver Courtland Sutton were “real close” to a contact extension, the deal is done.

The sides agreed Monday to a four-year extension worth $92 million, multiple sources confirmed to The Denver Post.

The deal tacks four years onto the final year of Sutton’s 2021 extension, meaning he’s now tied to the Broncos through the 2029 season. It comes with $41 million in guaranteed money, sources told The Post. That includes the $14 million Sutton was set to make in 2025 plus $27 million in new money guarantees.

The extension averages $23 million per season, which puts Sutton tied for 18th in the NFL in terms of average annual value. The $92 million in new money mirrors in some ways a deal done in 2024 between Tennessee and Calvin Ridley. Ridley got $50 million in guarantees, but the terms are relatively similar for players who were taken in the same 2018 draft class and have put up similar career totals since.

Over the Broncos’ practices Saturday and Monday, Sutton participated in individual work and early practice walk-throughs but did not take any repetitions in full-speed, 11-on-11 work.

That, it turns out, is not because he’s holding out or protesting his contract status.

“Courtland is real smart. Here’s the deal, he’s been participating in all the individual, all the 1-on-1s,” Payton said Monday while describing the sides as “real close” to an agreement. “He’s done 7-on-7, he’s gotten team reps. He’s just being smart. So it’d be different if you felt like he was missing improvement or not being out here or being out here but just riding the bike or something.

“I know that player well enough to feel real good enough about where he’s at and his mindset both mentally and physically.”

In fact, since Sutton took some team reps on Friday, his representatives and the Broncos had been moving toward the finish line of an agreement.

Sutton had expressed confidence he’d get a contract extension since the spring. Back in April he said he thought the conversations were headed in a positive direction. That alone represented a tone shift from a year ago, when Sutton skipped the voluntary portion of the Broncos’ offseason schedule and eventually settled for adding $1.7 million in earnable incentives to his 2024 deal.

Sutton cashed in $1.5 million of those incentives by putting together perhaps his best season as a professional. The 2018 second-round draft pick quickly became the go-to target for then-rookie quarterback Bo Nix.

He caught 81 passes on 135 targets for 1,081 yards and eight touchdowns and helped the Broncos to their first playoff berth of his tenure here.

Sutton is the second-longest tenured Broncos player, trailing only 2017 first-round draft pick Garett Bolles. Bolles received a four-year, $82 million extension in December 2024.

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