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The Kansas Chiefs safety Eric Berry has accomplished something else in life… this is the man who went from battling cancer in 2014 to today when he became NFL’s highest-paid safety.
That’s right, the NFL Network made the announcement earlier this afternoon that Berry and the Chiefs came to an agreement on a six-year deal worth $78 million with $40 million in guaranteed pay.
This new deal allows the 28-year old to play the franchise tag and that was after he made a statement saying he didn’t want to do that again.
“I want to end my career with Kansas City. I want to play there. I love this city, I love the vibe, I love my teammates. I really look at them more than teammates. We’ve been through a lot and they supported me a lot. And the organization. But I don’t feel comfortable playing under the franchise tag this year.”
The contract talks had been in the works since last July and as of this past Sunday, Berry said that he was “going to keep being patient” about any agreement.
The new contract seems to be worthy… last season, Berry ended it as the eighth-ranked safety.
After battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Berry made his comeback with a vengeance in 2015 and he even made the ProBowl too.
All that was progress that even stunned his cancer doc, Christopher Flowers.
As the Dr. said back in 2015 to FOX Sports, “I was truly awed by the incredible achievement. I reached out to him today to congratulate him, and Eric is really, truly a testament to the great will and spirit of an individual in overcoming this cancer. He’s been a fighter through all of his therapy so far and has really had the best outcome that we could have possibly hopped for him at this point.”
If you recall, the Houston Texans also had a player battling a different form of lymphoma too, David Quessenberry.
Quessenberry battled Non-Hopkins lymphoma in 2014 and as of June 2016, he said that he was in remission, but that he had to complete “maintenance chemotherapy protocol.”
He has not returned to the NFL like Berry.
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