Titans Sign Linebacker Harold Landry To Five-Year $87.5 Million Deal

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Harold Landry. Photo: Courtesy of the Tennessee Titans/Donald Page

Titans have signed linebacker Harold Landry to a massive five-year, $87.5 million deal making him the highest paid linebacker on the team. The deal was announced late on Tuesday night (March 8) and includes $52.5 million guaranteed, according to a report from NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero.

Landry was signed just hours after not being franchise tagged by the 3 p.m. deadline, which meant the Titans had a week to make a deal or he would become a free agent.

“It’s no secret that I love playing for the Titans, and my family loves living in Tennessee,” Landry said at the 2022 Pro Bowl. “So hopefully we can get a deal done.”

The Pro Bowler led the Titans with 12 sacks and 14 tackles for loss, and ranked second on the team with a career-best 49 quarterback pressures while finishing third on the team with 74 tackles. In 2021, Landry joined Micah Parsons, Aaron Donald and Cameron Heyward as the only NFL players in 2021 to post at least 75 tackles and 10 sacks.

Landry was a key member of the Titans defense that led them them to AFC South title and the No. 1 overall seed. The 2021 season was his third consecutive season in which he started every contest, extending his streaks to 64 consecutive games played and 52 consecutive starts. At the conclusion of 2021, his starting streak was the sixth-longest active streak in the NFL among all defensive players.  In the Divisional Playoff Game versus the Bengals, Landry registered 1.5 sacks and six tackles.

A second-round draft pick of the Titans in the 2018 NFL Draft, Landry has accumulated a team-high 31 sacks. This is the second-highest total by a Titans/Oilers player in his first four NFL seasons since 1982, when individual sacks became an official NFL statistic 1982 (37 by Jevon Kearse).

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