Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts and his ceiling-shattering agent Nicole Lynn have made NFL history.
Jalen Hurts, who led the Philadelphia Eagles to Super Bowl 57 in February, became the NFL’s highest-paid player thanks to a five-year contract extension worth $255 million. The contract, negotiated by Nicole Lynn, is believed to be the largest ever completed by a female agent, according to an NFL news release.
Lynn took to her Instagram and congratulated the player, “So happy for my little bro @jalenhurts on becoming the highest paid player in NFL history! Thank you for trusting me with something of this magnitude. I remember sitting in your old high school interviewing to be your agent. I am a dreamer, but I’m not sure I could have ever imagined THIS is where we land.” Lynn and Hurts met via Instagram when Lynn slid into Hurts’ dm and simply requested to be his agent.
Once the pair met, a connection transcended a typical agent-athlete relationship. She said, “I’m a woman. People are going to overlook me. People are going to doubt me. They’re not going to give me the due respect. But I’m overcoming it, just like you do,” In response to this, Hurts says, “And that’s where we really hit it off. We had the same vision.”Prior to her ascension to president of football operations at Rich Paul’s Klutch Sports Group, Lynn was a Wall Street financial analyst, a profession she left for the football world. “I came to law school with the sole purpose of becoming a sports agent. I have always wanted to help athletes make the transition from college football to the NFL and then transition out of the NFL.” She became the first Black woman to represent a player in the Super Bowl when Hurts and the Eagles went to Super Bowl 57.
Lynn has continuously shattered ceilings: When the New England Patriots drafted quarterback Bailey Zappe in last year’s draft, she became the first Black woman in a seven-year span to represent a white quarterback.
