Bills, CB Christian Benford accepts the extension of $ 76 million over four years

Buffalo, NY – The Bills continued their philosophy and their trend of the signing of their own recovery choices to long -term extensions, accepting the conditions with the Christian Benford corner on a contract extension of $ 76 million over four years, said on Saturday in Hadley Engelhard and Jim Ulrich, ESPN.

Benford, 24, entered the last year of his recruit contract and will now be under contract throughout the 2029 season. The agreement is the last in the priority of players of the priority of the Bills who have transformed into starters before becoming free agents – “draft, develop and re -sign” as the director general Brandon Beane says.

The choice of sixth round of Villanova becomes the third member of the Bills 2022 draft class to sign a four -year extension during the offseason, joining the Large recipient Khalil Shakir and the second Bernard. The Bills have also signed the defensive winger Greg Rousseau (four years) and the quarter-Arrière Josh Allen (six years old) to this off-season.

“Love Christian and excited, he will be back this season, and we will see if it works now, later on the road, to keep it here,” said Beane earlier this month. “Which, once again, you know by what I have always said, we want to write, develop and bow down ours, and so excited that it will be here this year, especially knowing … We are thin in position at the moment.”

Benford has been a clear starter for the team in the past two seasons – he started five games while the Bills have worked on the departure situation of his recruit year. He then took a step forward in 2024 and became the n ° 1 outside corner of the team. Benford has 34 regular season departures in three seasons and posted 5 interceptions, 25 defended passes and 4 forced escapes and two escaped recovery.

The New Deal’s average annual value alone in its place the average annual value of Benford tied in 13th rank among the cornerbacks.

The signature of Benford responds in part to the greatest position of need of the team in the outdoor corner for the future. However, there is no clear starter opposite Benford on the list with the draft less than a month after Rasul Douglas became a free agent during the offseason. In terms of depth at the post, the team exchanged the first round choice in 2022 Kaiir Elam at the Cowboys of Dallas this month and brought back Dane Jackson.

The interrogation point remaining among the possible popularization candidates for Bills is the choice of first round in 2022, James Cook.