Get To Know Nicole Lynn: The Agent Behind Jalen Hurts Record Breaking $255M Deal

Jalen Hurts created NFL history on Monday when he signed a record five-year, $255 million contract, making him the highest-paid player in the league. Nicole Lynn, who served as his agent, closed the sale.

Her desire to assist her consumers isn’t only financial, though. She would rather change their lives for the better.

The contract contains $179.3 million in guaranteed money and a no-trade clause that will keep Hurts with the Philadelphia Eagles through 2028 after he guided the team to Super Bowl 57.

Since the outset of the quarterback’s NFL career, Lynn has been at his side.

“So happy for my little bro @jalenhurts on becoming the highest-paid player in NFL history!” Lynn wrote Monday on Instagram. “Thank you for trusting me with something of this magnitude. I remember sitting in your old high school and interviewing to be your agent. I am a dreamer, but I’m not sure I could have ever imagined THIS is where we land.”

How Did Lynn First Meet Hurts?

This is the origin story behind the successful Agent- player relationship that today we see Jalen Hurts getting a $225M deal and the convincing credit goes to Nicole Lynn.

Jalen Hurts viewed his Instagram messages after playing his final collegiate game for Oklahoma in January 2020. One of them was from NFL agent Nicole Lynn: “Hey, have you picked an agent? If not, I’d love to link.”

Hurts saw it; he was still looking for an agency. “I wanted to hear her out,” he says now.

Hurts claims in “People had doubts about me” “People are still sceptical of me.”

Hurts was expected to be selected in the mid-to-late stages of the draught, preferably in the second or later rounds, despite having won a national title and being one of the finest college quarterbacks in the game as a dual-threat both via the air and on the ground; he was selected 53rd. “He’s just not the guy,” one analyst said, summing up the way most of the football world seemed to view him.

“That turns me up,” Hurts says. “It lights a fire in me. It does something to me, because I know I’ll prove you wrong. But I saw that same fire in Nicole. 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.’ And that’s where we really hit it off. We had the same vision.”

Hurts cared about her résumé, her experience and how he trusted her. He thought: What the hell else mattered? “People are going to doubt her because she’s a woman in this industry,” he says. “There was a sense of doubt. Why is she doing this? Can she represent a quarterback? What’s she going to do with him?”

Hurts employed ladies to manage his life around football as he started creating the foundation for his profession. The first step was picking Lynn as his representative.

Who is Nicole Lynn?

In many respects, Lynn, 34, is a ground-breaking agent. After establishing herself as an NFL agent since 2015, she was appointed President of Football for Klutch Sports Group in April. She was the first female employee of PlayersRep, one of the main NFL agencies at the time, when it was founded in that year. At age 26, she signed her first customer.

Lynn attended school in Oklahoma, just like Jalen Hurts. She successfully completed both her bachelor’s and law degrees at the same university. She worked as a financial analyst on Wall Street and was a sports agent as well.

As Hurts finished his NCAA football career with the Sooners, there were concerns about his likelihood of success in the NFL. Nicole Lynn, though, made a last-ditch effort by DMing Hurts on Instagram.

If the Heisman Trophy candidate for 2019 already has an agent, she questioned. Hurts finally agreed to a contract, and the rest is history.

At the pinnacle of her career, Lynn will never forget the adversity that made her resilient.

Other clients For Lynn

Lynn additionally represents Quinnen Williams, Donovan Peoples-Jones, Chase Young, and DeVonta Smith in addition to Hurts.

Along with other athletes, Klutch Sports is in charge of negotiating contracts for Evan Neal, Breece Hall, Jeff Okudah, Kayvon Thibodeaux, and Jermaine Johnson II.

When she joined Lil Wayne’s Young Money’s PlayersRep in 2015, she began her career as an NFL player agent. Two years later, the firm was acquired by APAA Sports Agency.

When Williams was selected by the New York Jets in 2019, she created history by being the first black woman to represent a top-three choice.

In 2021, Lynn began working for Klutch Sports as president of football operations. She now oversees the whole football sector of the business founded by Rich Paul, a personal friend of LeBron James.

With the signing of top 2023 NFL Draft prospects Bijan Robinson and Will Anderson Jr. to Klutch Sports, Nicole Lynn’s career as a sports agent has continued beyond Hurts.

Nicole Lynn’s Net Worth

Primal Information and a number of other sources estimate Lynn’s net worth to be about $5 million.

The starting pay in the industry, according to Sports Management Degrees, is about $56,000. As they advance in the industry, typical pay can rise to around $110,000 per year, depending on region and clientele. They did, however, add that the cost may go considerably above $500,000, depending on the clientele’s position and the agent’s level of accomplishment.

In Lynn’s instance, they said that compensation comparable to those in the NFL would normally be on the “higher end,” which might exceed $1 million. Football agent wages were broken down by league by Sports Management Worldwide, and the NFL’s were on the low end at $705,000 and the high end of $54.9 million. They also reported commissions per client can be between $21,150-$1.6 million.

 

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