New York Giants

Eli Manning's agent confident Giants will extend his contract

Published Jun. 29, 2015 11:53 a.m. ET

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Although quarterback Eli Manning's contract is set to expire after the 2015 season, the New York Giants seem to be in no rush to extend him a new deal. Manning does not seem to be worried, as he confirmed earlier this offseason, and he's not the only one. Manning's agent, Tom Condon, is confident that a deal will get completed.

"The quarterbacks always get done," Condon told Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News. "And the Giants are not a skittish team. So it's not one of those things where they get nervous or they jump around or anything like that. You know you're going to go in and it's going to get done. I'm sure at the appropriate time it'll happen."

Condon's opinion on how the ending will play out with Manning and the Giants is based on the recent history of franchise quarterbacks set to hit free agency.

"The interesting part about it is, since 1993, the inception of free agency, has there ever been an elite quarterback hit the open market?" Condon asks. "Peyton (Manning did in 2012), but he had four neck surgeries and no idea if he would ever be well enough to play. Drew Brees, when he went to New Orleans (in 2006), he had 15 studs in his shoulder, in his throwing arm (from a hit he took in the final game of 2005)..

"There's nobody else that's ever come up. They just re-do you."

$17.5 million is the number that Manning will earn in the final year of the seven-year, $106.9 million deal. If Manning can build on the success he found in 2014, under offensive coordinator Ben McAdoo, he will be expecting an even bigger payday. Ben Roethlisberger recently signed a five-year, $99 million contract with clauses that can turn the deal into an $108 million one. Manning and Condon will be gunning for something within that range.

(h/t New York Daily News)

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