Tom Brady Contract: How Much Longer Will The QB Play For Tampa Bay?

Tom Brady appears to want a few more shots at winning another title with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The 43-year-old has reportedly agreed to a contract extension with the Super Bowl champs.

Brady and Tampa Bay have reached a deal that ties the quarterback to the Buccaneers through the 2022 NFL season, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports. It’s technically a four-year extension, though the deal can be avoided to a one-year extension.

Last offseason, Tampa Bay signed Brady to a two-year, $50 million contract in free agency. The extension adds another season onto the original deal.

The move is said to free up $19 million in salary-cap space for the Bucs this year and assist in Tampa Bay’s quest to bring back key components of its championship roster.

The Tom-Brady extension saves the Buccaneers $19 million against the cap this year, per sources. The additional voidable years are there to defray the cost. It was another effort from Brady to keep as much of the team together as possible. https://t.co/65qAGO5Px7
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 12, 2021

Educated assumption here says the Buccaneers converted all but a minimum $1.075M of Tom Brady’s $25M of cash into a signing bonus that will spread over 5 years, & added another $25M cash into 2022.

Projected 2021 cap hit: $9.3M, $19M less than the current figure.
— Spotrac (@spotrac) March 12, 2021

Rob Gronkowski, Antonio Brown, Leonard Fournette, and Shaq Barrett are all unsigned for the 2021 season. The Bucs used the franchise tag on Chris Godwin and signed Lavonte David to a new deal.

Brady’s cap hit for next season was set to be $28.3 million.

With the new extension, Brady is likely to keep playing through his age-45 season. The quarterback has said he would consider remaining in the NFL beyond his 45th birthday.

“Yeah, definitely. I would definitely consider that,” Brady told reporters the Monday before Super Bowl LV when asked if he would play past 45 years old. “Again, it’s a physical sport and just the perspective I have on that is you never know when that moment is. Just because it’s a contact sport and there’s a lot of training that goes into it. Again, it has to be 100% commitment from myself to keep doing it.”

In February, Brady became the oldest quarterback to win a Super Bowl, breaking the record he set in 2019 when he led the New England Patriots to a championship at 41 years old.

Brady won his record fifth Super Bowl MVP award. He threw three touchdown passes and no interceptions in Tampa Bay’s victory over Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs.

The Bucs are among the favorites to win the 2022 Super Bowl.