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Coming off his third Super Bowl victory, the Kansas City Chiefs' Andy Reid is now reportedly the NFL's highest-paid coach.

Details of the deal have not been publicized, but NFL Network's Tom Pelissero is reporting that Reid is now the league's top-paid coach on a new deal that runs through the 2029 season.

Chiefs spokesmen did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com's request for further details.  

Now-former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick was reportedly the NFL's highest-paid coach in 2023 at $20 million, although pay at the position average closer to $6 million a year. 

There had been unsubstantiated reports that the 65-year-old coach might call it quits after the Super Bowl, although Reid continually clapped back at such talk in the run-up to the big game.

'To win one is tough. To win two, back to back, is really tough,' Reid told reporters in Kansas City following his Super Bowl win over the San Francisco 49ers. 'That's not an easy thing to do, and to know the effort the guys put into it, the way they stuck together through the highs and lows ... that's gratifying as a head coach.'

The only downside to making Super Bowl runs deep into February, which the Chiefs have done four of the last five years — with three victory parades to show

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