{"id":801268,"date":"2026-03-09T00:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/801268\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T00:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:42:18","slug":"la-rams-trent-mcduffie-have-just-set-the-market-for-a-devon-witherspoon-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/801268\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Rams, Trent McDuffie have just set the market for a Devon Witherspoon extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Los Angeles Rams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldgulls.com\/seattle-seahawks-news\/163946\/nfl-news-la-rams-trade-trent-mcduffie-kansas-city-chiefs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made a huge move earlier this week<\/a> when they traded for Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Trent McDuffie, giving up the lesser of their two first-round picks in the process. With McDuffie\u2019s contract set to expire at the end of the 2026 season, the goal for the Rams was to trade and then agree to a new deal with the former Washington Huskies star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While the trade itself won\u2019t process until Wednesday, March 11, the pieces are in place for McDuffie to be the highest paid cornerback in NFL history. The two-time Super Bowl champion and two-time All-Pro has secured the bag in a big way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That\u2019s a whopping $31 million\/year for McDuffie, who was primarily a slot corner in 2023 but has since returned to being an outside corner for most of the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is relevant to the Seattle Seahawks and the looming extension talks with Devon Witherspoon, a three-time Pro Bowl corner who just made his first All-Pro as a second-teamer in 2025. He\u2019s instrumental to Mike Macdonald\u2019s defense as a cover corner, run defender, and blitzer, and his next contract is surely going to be close to the top (if not the very top) of the NFL cornerback market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Seahawks have until May 1 to exercise Witherspoon\u2019s fifth-year option, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldgulls.com\/seattle-seahawks-nfl-salary-cap\/163767\/nfl-news-fifth-year-option-numbers-seahawks-jaxon-smith-njigba-devon-witherspoon-revealed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which sits at over $21 million for the 2027 season<\/a>. Witherspoon has been extension eligible since January, but keep in mind that the number of players from the 2023 NFL Draft who\u2019ve been extended currently sits at zero.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Maybe another side-story this offseason is whether or not the Rams extend Puka Nacua before the Seahawks do anything with Jaxon Smith-Njigba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Rams made a huge move earlier this week when they traded for Kansas City Chiefs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,6,238,237,261,61123,718,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-801268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seahawks","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-seahawks","13":"tag-seattle-seahawks-salary-cap","14":"tag-seattle-seahawks-news","15":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116196445585563325","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801268","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=801268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}