With the new Jalen Hurts contract extension, the Philadelphia Eagles just made their quarterback the highest-paid player in NFL history. This deal is a testament to his perseverance as a football player, his development as a quarterback, and the incredible team around him on the field.
Credit also goes to the five women who make up his all-female management team. Here is what you need to know about Jalen Hurts’ agent, Nicole Lynn, and the rest of the women who just helped him ink a $255 deal. Meet the Eagles QB’s agent and female-led management team. Congrats to Jalen Hurts for becoming the highest paid player in NFL history and his agent Nicole Lynn for negotiating.
Jalen trusting an all-female management team is huge for women on the business side of sports. pic.twitter.com/e2j1cN3DVo — Vanessa Richardson (@SportsVanessa) April 17, 2023
Jalen Hurts’ agent is Nicole Lynn, now the President of Football Operations for Klutch Sports Group. Back in 2020, Lynn was a young sports agent on the rise, already representing several former Alabama players like Quinnen Williams, per Sports Illustrated. However, just before the 2020 NFL Draft, she shot a player from her alma mater, Oklahoma, a DM on Instagram.
“Hey, have you picked an agent?” Lynn wrote to Hurts. “If not, I’d love to link.” Hurts and his father met with Lynn, and the QB saw the “same fire” in her as an oft-overlooked female sports agent that he had as a signal-caller few believed in at the time.
After Hurts got into the league, he started adding more female professionals to his team. Today, he works with Chantal Romain, Shakeemah Simmons-Winter for communications, Jenna Malphrus for management, and Rachel Everett for marketing. Romain is the former Director of Social Responsibility, Player Programs, and Marketing Communications for the NBA, while Simmons-Walker has worked for Madison Square Garden, the New York Knicks, and the corporate communications department at ESPN.
Malphrus spent time in the sales world before becoming a client services manager for Klutch, and Everett has run her own sports marketing firm for over a decade. The historic Jalen Hurts contract extension is, of course, due to his play on the field for the Eagles. But it also happened thanks to this incredible team around him.
