{"id":823668,"date":"2026-07-25T21:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/823668\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:17:17","slug":"robert-kraft-weve-offered-to-make-christian-gonzalez-the-top-paid-cornerback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/823668\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Kraft: We&#8217;ve offered to make Christian Gonzalez the top-paid cornerback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cornerback Christian Gonzalez is at Patriots training camp as he continues to talk to the team about a contract extension and Saturday brought some idea of what those conversations have looked like this offseason. <\/p>\n<p>Patriots owner Robert Kraft said that the team has offered Gonzalez a deal that would set records for both NFL cornerbacks and members of the Patriots organization. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love Christian Gonzalez. We love him as a player, as a person, and that\u2019s why we\u2019ve made an offer to him to make him <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/49447151\/kraft-patriots-gonzalez-offer-highest-paid-cb-ever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the highest-paid player<\/a> to ever play that position in the NFL,\u201d Kraft said, via Mike Reiss of ESPN.com. \u201cAnd coincidentally, it is the highest contract in Patriots franchise history. So we\u2019re glad we drafted him, he\u2019s developed here, and we hope he\u2019ll be with us for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rams cornerback Trent McDuffie set the bar at the position when he signed a four-year, $124 million deal this offseason. <\/p>\n<p>A recent report indicated that Gonzalez\u2019s negotiations <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/report-devon-witherspoon-further-along-in-contract-talks-than-christian-gonzalez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">have been complicated<\/a> by the Seahawks\u2019 ongoing talks with Devon Witherspoon. The cornerbacks share an agent and Witherspoon, who is also shooting for the top of the market for corners, is reportedly closer to an agreement that could open the door for the Patriots and Gonzalez reaching the finish line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cornerback Christian Gonzalez is at Patriots training camp as he continues to talk to the team about a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-823668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}