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Eagles' Westbrook to be paid as 'best running back in football'

ESPN.com news services

Friday, August 8, 2008

PITTSBURGH -- Brian Westbrook and the Philadelphia Eagles agreed to a new contract on Friday, hours before the team opened its preseason schedule against the Pittsburgh Steelers. ESPN.com's John Clayton reported Westbrook's revised contract will pay him at least $21 million over the next three years, according to a source. Westbrook, 28, was in the third year of a $25 million, five-year contract he signed in 2005. He was scheduled to earn $3 million this season with a roster bonus of $1.5 mil ...

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