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9 Aug 2026

Titans make Skoronski the NFL's highest-paid guard on a four-year deal

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NFL Network reported the extension as agreed, but no dollar figures have been attached to it yet.

What was reported

The Tennessee Titans have agreed to a four-year contract with guard Peter Skoronski that makes him the highest-paid player at his position in the NFL, according to NFL Network, in a report circulated by Ian Rapoport's RapSheet account.

That is the extent of what has been put on the record. The length of the deal is four years and the positional ranking is first. No total value, no guaranteed money, no per-year average and no signing-bonus structure has been reported alongside it. Anyone quoting a number at this stage is quoting something that has not appeared in the report.

Why the missing figures matter

For guards specifically, the headline "highest-paid" label is a moving target that usually gets settled by average annual value, and AAV is the one figure that has not been published here. Until it is, there is no way to say by how much Skoronski clears the previous benchmark, or whether the deal resets the position by a wide margin or a token amount. Those are different outcomes for every agent negotiating a guard contract behind him.

The practical read for now is narrower: Tennessee has taken a starting interior lineman off its list of upcoming contract questions for four seasons, and has done so at the top of the market rather than in the middle of it. Guard is a position where teams have historically resisted paying at the ceiling, so a club voluntarily setting the ceiling is the part of this worth noting even without the arithmetic.

What to watch

The contract terms will become public once the paperwork filters through the NFL Players Association's records. That is the point at which the size of the reset can be measured rather than described.

MetaBet News has not independently verified the agreement.

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