{"id":844564,"date":"2026-03-31T09:11:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/844564\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:11:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:11:41","slug":"patriots-survey-results-christian-gonzalez-should-be-nfls-highest-paid-cb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/844564\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots survey results: Christian Gonzalez should be NFL\u2019s highest-paid CB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking at the NFL annual league meetings Monday, New England Patriots Owner Robert Kraft expressed his desire<\/a> to keep star cornerback Christian Gonzalez with the team for the long-term.<\/p>\n

New England\u2019s first-round pick in 2023, Gonzalez\u2019s rookie contract is set to expire at the end of next season. The team can exercise his fifth-year option for the 2027 season and are now eligible to negotiate a long-term extension with the cornerback \u2014 something the front office has continued to say is part of their plans.<\/p>\n

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\u201cChristian\u2019s a tremendous player. It\u2019s no secret that we\u2019d like to try to get something done with him,\u201d executive vice president of player personnel Eliot Wolf said Monday. \u201cHe\u2019s a great talent. He\u2019s one of the best players at his position in the NFL. He\u2019s developing as a leader\u2026 He\u2019s really just scratching the surface. He\u2019s already up there as an elite talent and we think he can improve even more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Extending the 23-year old All-Pro will not be cheap, especially after Gonzalez was one of the Patriots\u2019 best players to conclude last season \u2014 hauling in a game-sealing interception in the AFC Championship Game before recording three pass breakups in the Super Bowl. In fact, Gonzalez has a chance to reset the market at the cornerback position. In the results of the latest\u00a0SB Nation Reacts\u00a0survey, 68% of participants think the Patriots should do just that and make Gonzalez the highest paid corner in football.<\/p>\n

The comment section<\/a> was largely in agreement.<\/p>\n

SuncreamDreams<\/p>\n

I\u2019d go 5 years, 150m, 120m guaranteed, that works out at 24m guaranteed a year and some nifty bonus\/incentive<\/p>\n

For Pats Sake<\/p>\n

5 Years, 150M, 100M guaranteed. Gonzo is a better player than Sauce or McDuffie.<\/p>\n

WelshPatriot<\/p>\n

Whatever he wants. Just do it.<\/p>\n

SlotMachinePlayer<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got a first-born male child. I\u2019m sure others here can sweeten the deal.<\/p>\n

Sportzballer<\/p>\n

The Patriots should pay him. I don\u2019t really have a specific player to model after since Gonzalez is his own situation. What I do know is we have seen attempts to wait or lowball elite players and it almost always backfires.<\/p>\n

All in all, this week\u2019s survey results look as follows:<\/p>\n

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The cornerback market was already reset this offseason after the Los Angeles Rams traded for Trent McDuffie and inked him to a record-setting four-year, $124 million contract with a whopping $100 million guaranteed.<\/p>\n

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A majority of Patriots fans believe that contract is the best offer to model a potential extension with Gonzalez afterwards \u2014 which would then make him the league\u2019s highest paid cornerback. Meanwhile, 30% of fans would prefer a structure to similar to Sauce Gardner, who signed a four-year, $120.4 million deal with $85 million guaranteed. Derek Stingley\u2019s three-year, $90 million deal ($89 million guaranteed) was then an offer that just 12% of participants preferred.<\/p>\n

New England has said they are in the business of keeping their best players, which is certainly Gonzalez after he played a huge role in them making Super Bowl LX last season. Currently on FanDuel Sportsbook<\/a>, the Patriots have the fifth-best odds to get back to the Super Bowl next year \u2014 trailing just the Ravens, Bills, Chiefs and Chargers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking at the NFL annual league meetings Monday, New England Patriots Owner Robert Kraft expressed his desire to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[114,241,346,6032,564,231,258,16276,7,3872,58,7471,1167,249,6,7536,4223],"class_list":["post-844564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-afc-championship","tag-chargers","tag-chiefs","tag-christian-gonzalez","tag-colorado","tag-denver","tag-denver-broncos","tag-derek-stingley","tag-football","tag-jarrett-stidham","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-marvin-mims-jr","tag-new-england","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-sauce-gardner","tag-trent-mcduffie"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116323020140726857","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844564","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=844564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}