Quarterback Philip Rivers signed a six-year contract extension yesterday with the Chargers worth $93 million, with $38 million guaranteed.
A person familiar with the contract confirmed the numbers but requested anonymity because the team did not release any figures. The deal goes through 2015.
Rivers is coming off his best pro season, when he set a team record for touchdown passes with a league-high 34.
He said he was “thankful to have many more opportunities to suit up and go out there and be the quarterback for the Chargers and to be able to just do all I can to lead us to a championship.’’
Burress speaks
Plaxico Burress
alleges that security staff knew he was carrying a gun upon entering a Manhattan nightclub where he later accidentally shot himself in the thigh.
In an excerpt of an ESPN interview broadcast last night, Burress says the gun fired after he missed a step walking up stairs. The gun began to slide down his pant leg and Burress reached to stop it. “My finger hit right on the trigger,’’ he said. “What are the odds on that happening?’’
The former Giants receiver pleaded guilty last week to a weapons charge stemming from the November incident and accepted a two-year prison term.
Hill 49ers’ choice
Shaun Hill
is going to start at quarterback for the 49ers’ season opener at Arizona Sept. 13, beating out Alex Smith. Coach Mike Singletary made the announcement before practice at the team’s headquarters . . . Eagles quarterback Michael Vick was seen in a recent New York Post photo drinking vodka and pineapple juice at a Philadelphia airport bar, and it wasn’t immediately clear when the photo was published whether he was violating conditions mandated for his return by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. However an Eagles spokesman, in an e-mail to The Philadelphia Inquirer, confirmed drinking alcohol “was not in conflict with terms of his probation or reinstatement with the NFL.’’
Favre to play half
Brett Favre’s
crash course in all things Viking ramps up this week, with coach Brad Childress saying he expects the 39-year-old QB to play the entire first half of Minnesota’s exhibition game at Houston on Monday . . . Bengals QB Carson Palmer is expected to miss another exhibition because of a sprained left ankle . . . Cardinals second-round draft pick Cody Brown is out for the season with a dislocated left wrist. The linebacker from the University of Connecticut, the 63d overall pick, was injured in a 17-6 loss to the Chargers Saturday night . . . The Titans released receiver Chris Davis, just four days after he was arrested on a drunken driving charge.
Sanchez up, down
