{"id":801337,"date":"2026-03-09T01:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/801337\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T01:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:39:14","slug":"trent-mcduffie-agrees-to-historic-contract-extension-after-chiefs-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/801337\/","title":{"rendered":"Trent McDuffie agrees to historic contract extension after Chiefs trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nfl\/los-angeles-rams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a> just acquired a lockdown defender and then reset the entire market. Just days after pulling off a blockbuster trade with the Kansas City Chiefs, <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nfl\/los-angeles-rams\/rams-rumors-los-angeles-nearing-trent-mcduffie-contract-extension-chiefs-trade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Rams and Trent McDuffie<\/a> reached an agreement on a historic four-year, $124 million contract extension.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">According to ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/2030796379866444143?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the deal<\/a> includes a staggering $100 million in guaranteed money, officially making McDuffie the highest-paid cornerback in NFL history.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The move signals a massive shift for the Los Angeles secondary. <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nfl\/los-angeles-rams\/trent-mcduffie-trade-grades-rams-chiefs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By securing McDuffie<\/a> through the 2029 season, the Rams have stabilized a defense that desperately needed an elite cornerstone. The 25-year-old cornerback arrives in Hollywood with a resume that justifies the price tag. During the 2025 season, McDuffie remained one of the league\u2019s most feared coverage specialists, allowing a completion percentage under 55% while serving as the engine of the Chiefs&#8217; secondary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Rams just acquired a lockdown defender and then reset the entire market. Just days after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2079],"tags":[7,1014,58,2444,2611,6,424,4223],"class_list":{"0":"post-801337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-los-angeles","10":"tag-los-angeles-rams","11":"tag-losangeles","12":"tag-losangelesrams","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-rams","15":"tag-trent-mcduffie"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801337","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=801337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}