{"id":784167,"date":"2026-03-01T10:33:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/784167\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T10:33:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:33:30","slug":"buffalo-bills-re-sign-sam-franklin-jr-to-3-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/784167\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Bills re-sign Sam Franklin Jr. to 3-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Feb. 27, 2026, 8:43 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" data-autotag=\"1082767b-7fb4-4f44-b217-cdba2c3895e9\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> have brought special teamer Sam Franklin back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Franklin, 30, has reportedly signed a three-yea deal to remain in Buffalo. According to ESPN&#8217;s Jeremy Fowler, the deal is worth up to $7.5 million:<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Franklin signed a one-year deal with the Bills last August. He went on to feature in all 17 games for the team in 2025 and was on the field for 75.8% of special teams snaps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Prior to signing in Buffalo, Franklin spent five years with the Carolina Panthers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Bills Wire<\/a> will continue to provide updates throughout the 2026 offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Feb. 27, 2026, 8:43 a.m. ET The Buffalo Bills have brought special teamer Sam Franklin back. Franklin,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[95878,215,214,53,2086,7,6,2116,97205,97206,95882,97207,96033,95892,95906,110743,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-784167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-bills","10":"tag-buffalo","11":"tag-buffalo-bills","12":"tag-buffalobills","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-sstssportsnflbills","17":"tag-sstsnbills","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagbuffalo","20":"tag-tagbuffalo-bills","21":"tag-tagespn-inc","22":"tag-tagoverall-positive","23":"tag-tagsam-franklin-jr","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116153470533010830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}