JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- It took the Jacksonville Jaguars and receiver Allen Hurns only five weeks to come up with the four-year contract extension the receiver signed on Thursday evening.

The hardest part for Hurns may have been the hour between agreeing to the deal and finally signing the paperwork.

"It was great," Hurns said. "One of the best feelings ever."

The four-year, $40 million deal with $20 million guaranteed -- which makes him the highest-paid receiver in team history -- came together relatively quickly.

General manager Dave Caldwell said negotiations with Hurns’ agent, Drew Rosenhaus, began the week after the NFL draft. Rosenhaus was in the facility on Thursday afternoon and Hurns said Rosenhaus and Caldwell met at 2:30 p.m. ET while he was getting a massage.

At about 4 p.m., Hurns said he got a text from Rosenhaus: “Don’t leave yet. I want to talk to you after this meeting.”

After Hurns met with Rosenhaus, he ran into Caldwell in the hallway and chatted for a few minutes. Hurns said Rosenhaus told him the deal was done roughly an hour later.

"I called my mom, my grandmother, my brother," Hurns said. "They came down, so we shared that time and then we had to wait for the paperwork. That probably took about an hour.

"My mom was crying. She started crying instantly. My grandma just said how proud she is of me [because of] what I went through. I never complained about anything. Same with my brother. Those are the people that are always with me and are going to tell me things for what it is."

Caldwell could have waited until after the season to do a contract but said he didn’t want to risk losing Hurns, who has caught 115 passes for 1,708 yards and 16 touchdowns in two seasons after signing with the team as an undrafted free agent out of Miami. The yards and touchdown catches are the most by an undrafted player in his first two seasons since the 1970 merger.

"He’s done it two years in a row," Caldwell said. "Wasn’t just a one-year wonder and that’s another reason why we felt comfortable with it. Two years of production plus the type of person and character he is. It was the right decision on our part."

It’s easy to see that Hurns is one of the team’s most-respected players. Caldwell and coach Gus Bradley talk about his character and work ethic and admire his statements about continuing to have to prove himself every season. Multiple players congratulated him on Twitter on Thursday night, too.

That doesn’t mean they haven’t given him a hard time, though.

"Nonstop," Hurns said. "The guy who gave me the most problem was Julius Thomas -- like he wasn’t paid. But at the end of the day it’s all love. That’s the good thing about it. It’s all genuine, there’s no jealousy so that’s what I love about it."

Even his position coach, Jerry Sullivan, ribbed him about his swollen bank account, too.

"He gave me crap about me always wearing my Miami book bag," Hurns said. "He said I’ll be wearing a Gucci book bag."