Kansas City Chiefs sign Canadian Laurent Duvernay-Tardif to five-year extension
Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is remaining true to himself.
The six-foot-five, 321-pound offensive lineman signed a five-year contract extension with the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs on Tuesday. The deal is reportedly worth US$41.25 million with $20 million guaranteed.
The contract makes the 25-year-old native of Mont-St-Hilaire, Que., one of the NFL’s highest-paid guards and should provide him with financial security for the rest of his life. But Duvernay-Tardif has no intentions of either halting or delaying his medical school studies at McGill University.
Earlier this month, Duvernay-Tardif returned to Montreal to resume his studies and expects to complete his medical degree in 2018.