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When Bobby Wagner signed a four-year, $43 million contract with the Seahawks this year, he became the NFL’s only inside linebacker making more than $10 million a year. Now Carolina’s Luke Kuechly has become the NFL’s only inside linebacker making more than $11 million a year.

And the NFL’s only inside linebacker making more than $12 million a year.

PFT has now had a chance to review the financial details of Kuechly’s deal, which at $62 million over five years gives him an average of $12.4 million a year.

Kuechly will be paid $20 million in the first year of the deal and $27 million over the first two years, a huge bump from the $2.1 million he was slated to make this year (the fourth year of his rookie contract), and a huge bump from the $13.2 million he was slated to make over the next two years (if he had played out his rookie contract, including next year’s fifth-year option).

All in all, Kuechly did very well for himself. And he’ll still be in his 20s when he hits free agency again.