{"id":836371,"date":"2026-03-27T07:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/836371\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T07:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:20:16","slug":"bills-connor-mcgovern-explains-how-it-all-changed-and-he-re-signed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/836371\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills&#8217; Connor McGovern explains how it all changed and he re-signed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bills&#8217; Connor McGovern explains how it all changed and he re-signed<a class=\"gnt_bc\"\/><\/p>\n<p>March 26, 2026, 5:46 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" data-autotag=\"1082767b-7fb4-4f44-b217-cdba2c3895e9\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> brought offensive lineman back just ahead of NFL free agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">McGovern anchored Buffalo&#8217;s offensive line in the middle last year.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/news\/nfl-final-2025-nfl-offensive-line-rankings\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pro Football Focus<\/a>\u00a0ranked the Bills&#8217; O-line as the sixth-best in the NFL at the end of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The agreement happened despite McGovern telling The Athletic he had not heard from the Bills regarding a new contract. McGovern said he believed his tenure was believed to be &#8220;over and down with&#8221; in Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">So what happened in between that time?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">McGovern explains it below:<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:4|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 billswire.usatoday.com. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bills&#8217; Connor McGovern explains how it all changed and he re-signed March 26, 2026, 5:46 p.m. ET The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[95878,215,214,53,2086,7,6,97205,97206,95882,96033,104137,95896,95888,95897,95906,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-836371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-bills","10":"tag-buffalo","11":"tag-buffalo-bills","12":"tag-buffalobills","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflbills","16":"tag-sstsnbills","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagbuffalo-bills","19":"tag-tagconnor-mcgovern","20":"tag-tagnational-sports","21":"tag-tagnfl","22":"tag-tagoverall-negative","23":"tag-tagoverall-positive","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116299931592078058","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836371","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=836371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}