{"id":799006,"date":"2026-03-07T19:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T19:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/799006\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T19:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T19:33:21","slug":"connor-mcgovern-agrees-to-52-million-multi-year-deal-with-buffalo-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/799006\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor McGovern agrees to $52 million multi-year deal with Buffalo Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Buffalo Bills won\u2019t have to search high and low for a new starting center once free agency begins early new week. ESPN senior NFL Insider Adam Schefter reports that center Connor McGovern has \u201creached agreement on a four-year, $52 million deal that includes $32 million guaranteed. The move prevents McGovern from reaching free agency, thus retaining a key starter for years to come in front of quarterback Josh Allen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Alongside starting left guard David Edwards, McGovern\u2019s future with the Bills was cloudy thanks to the likelihood of cashing as a free agent following a productive starting tenure. President of football operations\/general manager Brandon Beane made McGovern a top priority, likely due to his relationship at center with Allen, and also his consistent high level of play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Short of the full details of McGovern\u2019s deal, the timing of this agreement is perhaps the most interesting thing at the moment. Had the Bills and McGovern managed to get something worked out just a few weeks ago, then Buffalo\u2019s front office could have avoided a $4 million dead-cap hit due to voids that matured on February 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Bills won\u2019t have to search high and low for a new starting center once free agency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,5165,2090,2091,2086,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-799006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-buffalo-bills-free-agency","12":"tag-buffalo-bills-news","13":"tag-buffalo-bills-roster","14":"tag-buffalobills","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116189567725463755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799006","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=799006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}