Sources: Browns, Dustin K Hopkins reach 3-year, $15.9M extension

The Cleveland Browns and kicker Dustin Hopkins reached agreement on a three-year, $15.9 million extension, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Monday, making him one of the NFL's top five highest-paid kickers.

In 2023, Hopkins made a franchise-record 33 of 36 field goal attempts, including a career-long 58-yard field goal. Hopkins also set an NFL record with five consecutive games in which he made a field goal of at least 50 yards.

Hopkins, 33, was set to enter the final year of his contract with a base value of $2.875 million.

The Browns traded for Hopkins two weeks before the start of the 2023 season, sending a 2025 seventh-round pick to the Los Angeles Chargers .

A sixth-round pick of the Buffalo Bills in 2013, Hopkins had been cut by Buffalo, the New Orleans Saints and Washington Commanders . He then lost his kicking job with the Chargers before landing in Cleveland, where he had a career-best year.

Hopkins missed the Browns' final two games of the regular season and their playoff loss to the Houston Texans because of a hamstring injury -- he also sustained a serious hamstring injury with the Chargers in 2022 -- but he is healthy and participated in the team's minicamp.

The Browns earlier this offseason also re-signed Cade York , whom Hopkins replaced last season.