PHILADELPHIA - Former Philadelphia Eagles guarantee and team captain Chris Maragos was awarded over $40M in a medical malpractice lawsuit on Monday. 

It took a jury less than three hours of deliberations to choose to award Maragos $43.5M. 

They ruled that the surgeon, James Bradley and Rothman Orthopedic, committed "medical negligence" in caring for his knee surgery which lead to and early end to Maragos career. 

"I hope this exclusive sends a message to teams' medical staffs that players are farmland, not just contracts," Margos, now 36, said in a statement. 

"This case and this jury may have changed the jets of history by now forcing these team doctors and trainers to stop worrying approximately when a player might return to play. and initiate thinking about the next 50 years of a player's life."

Maragos played eight seasons in the NFL from 2010-2017, including four years in Philadelphia. He was a two-time Super Bowl Champion with both the Eagles and Seahawks.