{"id":801567,"date":"2026-03-09T04:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/801567\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T04:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:11:16","slug":"trent-mcduffie-signs-extension-with-rams-how-does-it-compare-to-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/801567\/","title":{"rendered":"Trent McDuffie signs extension with Rams: How does it compare to the past?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Rams signed newly-acquired cornerback Trent McDuffie to a record-breaking contract extension on Sunday, agreeing to pay him $100 million guaranteed on a four-year, $124 million deal. The $31 million annual salary is the most ever paid to a cornerback, although it is not expected to stand for long with players like Devon Witherspoon and Christian Gonzalez also both extension eligible in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s been six years since the Rams made Jalen Ramsey the highest-paid corner in history at that point on a five-year, $100 million contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Interestingly, inflation for $20 million in 2020 would equal $25 million in 2026, so McDuffie is beating inflation by a healthy margin. Obviously the NFL works differently than the real world and by 2030 cornerbacks could be making $40 million per season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">At that point, McDuffie will still be under 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rams signed newly-acquired cornerback Trent McDuffie to a record-breaking contract extension on Sunday, agreeing to pay him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[7,1014,58,4200,7357,2444,2611,6,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-801567","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-los-angeles-rams-news","12":"tag-los-angeles-rams-salary-cap","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-losangelesrams","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-rams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116197266934813425","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801567","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=801567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}