{"id":796005,"date":"2026-03-06T11:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/796005\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T11:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:30:22","slug":"rams-tyler-higbee-reach-two-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/796005\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams, Tyler Higbee reach two-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rams<\/p>\n

Rams tight end Tyler Higbee<\/p>\n

Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford<\/a> will have one of his favorite targets for at least one more season \u2014 and possibly longer.<\/p>\n

Tight end Tyler Higbee, a fourth-round pick in the 2016 NFL Draft who played at Western Kentucky, and the Rams<\/a> have agreed to a two-year contract extension, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n

\"Rams<\/p>\n

Rams tight end Tyler Higbee is staying with the team. (AP Photo\/Jacob Kupferman) AP<\/p>\n

The deal is worth up to $8 million, ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter reported.<\/p>\n

Higbee, 6-foot-6 and 253 pounds, was a pending free agent and pondering retirement, but Rams coach Sean McVay said the team was open to bringing him back for another go-around.<\/p>\n

The veteran, who has spent 10 seasons with the Rams, is the franchise\u2019s all-time leading tight end for receiving yards (3,949) and ranks first at the position in team history with 27 touchdown catches.<\/p>\n

Higbee played for the Rams<\/a> during their Super Bowl 56 season, but he did not see action in the NFL title game.<\/p>\n

During the playoffs that season, Higbee set personal postseason highs for receptions (nine) and yards (115). In the 2022 NFC Championship Game against the 49ers, Higbee suffered a knee injury in the first quarter after catching two passes for 18 yards and missed the rest of the game.<\/p>\n

He later was placed on injured reserve on Feb. 12, 2022, the day before Super Bowl 56. Though he did not play in the game, Higbee became a world champion when the Rams defeated the Bengals, 23-20.<\/p>\n

Higbee, 33, is the longest-tenured player on the roster. In 2025, he missed seven games due to injury but still caught 25 passes for 281 yards and three TDs.<\/p>\n

In 2024, he missed the first 14 games after tearing an ACL in the Rams\u2019 playoff loss to the Lions the previous season.<\/p>\n

In his career, Higbee has caught 386 passes and has been effective in short-yardage situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rams tight end Tyler Higbee Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford will have one of his favorite targets for at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[4191,7,1014,58,2444,2611,6,424,104999,34574,3416,7390],"class_list":["post-796005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-rams","tag-adam-schefter","tag-football","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesrams","tag-nfl","tag-rams","tag-rams-coach-sean-mcvay","tag-rams-quarterback","tag-the-rams","tag-tyler-higbee"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796005","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=796005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}