{"id":529800,"date":"2026-03-11T19:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529800\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T19:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:50:08","slug":"new-england-pats-sign-three-time-all-pro-safety-kevin-byard-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529800\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Pats sign three-time All-Pro safety Kevin Byard to one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/new-england-patriots\/300\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/new-england-patriots\/300\" target=\"_blank\">New England Patriots<\/a> made an addition to the secondary on Wednesday with the arrival of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/player\/kevin-byard-iii\/174612\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/player\/kevin-byard-iii\/174612\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Byard III<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 32-year-old All-Pro safety comes aboard on a one-year, $9 million deal, NFL Network\u2019s Tom Pelissero reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Byard appeared in all 17 games for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/chicago-bears\/305\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/chicago-bears\/305\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bears<\/a> last season, recording 93 tackles and an NFC-leading seven interceptions. His campaign earned him a first-team All-Pro nod, the third of his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Philadelphia, Byard heads into his 11th NFL season out of Middle Tennessee State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Originally selected with the 64th overall pick of the 2016 NFL Draft, Byard has appeared in 164 career games with the Bears, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/philadelphia-eagles\/293\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/philadelphia-eagles\/293\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/tennessee-titans\/307\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/tennessee-titans\/307\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessee Titans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For his career, Byard has 972 tackles, 6.0 sacks and 36 interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New England Patriots made an addition to the secondary on Wednesday with the arrival of Kevin Byard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[712,49,48,207987,161226,514,82],"class_list":["post-529800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-kevin-byard-iii-sports-football-player-player-statscom-591707","tag-new-england-patriots-sports-football-team-team-statscom-348","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}