{"id":66524,"date":"2025-08-13T13:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/66524\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:04:06","slug":"where-does-james-cooks-30m-guarantee-rank-among-nfl-running-backs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/66524\/","title":{"rendered":"Where does James Cook&#8217;s $30M guarantee rank among NFL running backs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The resolution Bills coach Sean McDermott had been waiting for with running back James Cook finally arrived today. According to NFL insider Adam Schefter, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1955592773211504713\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cook has agreed to a four-year, $48 million contract extension that includes $30 million fully guaranteed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Per Spotrac, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/spotrac\/status\/1955602051855196565\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cook&#8217;s $30 million guaranteed places him behind only two players in guaranteed money among running backs<\/a>: Philadelphia Eagles&#8217; Saquon Barkley, who <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nfl\/contracts\/_\/position\/rb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">holds the top spot with $36 million guaranteed<\/a> and Las Vegas Raiders&#8217; Ashton Jeanty, with $35.8 million guaranteed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This surpasses RBs like Jonathan Taylor ($26.5 million guaranteed), Derrick Henry ($24 million guaranteed) and Christian McCaffrey ($24 million guaranteed).<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Cook led the Bills with 1,009 rushing yards and tied for the league lead with 16 rushing touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the holdout, Cook&#8217;s future with the Bills was never in doubt. On Tuesday, he returned to practice and now he&#8217;s signed a new contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;James could only envision himself as a Buffalo Bill,&#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/45963843\/james-cook-bills-reach-4-year-48m-extension-rb-hold-in\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">his agent Zac Hiller said<\/a>. &#8220;We are extremely thankful to the entire Bills organization and glad we could make that happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cook is a key player for Sean McDermott, lining up alongside star quarterback Josh Allen. With both sides agreeing to a deal that satisfies everyone, they can now fully focus on the 2025 season ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The resolution Bills coach Sean McDermott had been waiting for with running back James Cook finally arrived today.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-66524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66524","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=66524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}