{"id":67423,"date":"2025-08-13T21:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67423\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T21:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:26:08","slug":"inside-the-kyren-williams-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67423\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Kyren Williams deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before the Bills and running back James Cook agreed to terms on a new deal, the Rams and running back Kyren Williams negotiated a second contract.<\/p>\n

The full breakdown of Cook\u2019s four-year, $11.5 million per year extension is here<\/a>. The full breakdown of the Williams contract appears below, per a source with knowledge of the terms:<\/p>\n

1. 2025 90-man roster bonus: $5.15 million, fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n

2.2025 base salary: $1.1 million, fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n

3. 2026 90-man roster bonus: $5.5 million, fully guaranteed three days after signing.<\/p>\n

4. 2026 base salary: $5.5 million, $2.75 million of which is fully guaranteed at signing, the rest of which is guaranteed for injury at signing and becomes fully guaranteed on the third day of 2026 league year.<\/p>\n

5.2026 per-game roster bonus: $645,000 total, fully guaranteed (but must be earned).<\/p>\n

6. 2027 90-man roster bonus: $550,000.<\/p>\n

7. 2027 base salary: $8.95 million, $4.605 of which is guaranteed for injury at signing, with $2.3025 million becoming fully guaranteed on the fifth day of the 2026 league year and the remaining $2.3025 million becoming fully guaranteed on the fifth day of the 2027 league year.<\/p>\n

8. 2027 per-game roster bonus: $500,000 total, guaranteed for injury at signing and fully guaranteed as of the fifth day of the 2027 league year (but must be earned). <\/p>\n

9. 2028 base salary: $10.451 million.<\/p>\n

Williams was due to make $5.346 million in 2025. The full four-year deal has an average payout of $9.586 million per year. The new-money average on the three-year extension is $11 million.<\/p>\n

The full guarantee at signing is $15.145 million. By March 2026, $20.1975 million is fully guaranteed. By March 2027, $23 million is fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n

Williams will earn, if the contract is honored in full, $38.346 million. He\u2019ll be eligible for free agency in 2029, when he\u2019s 28 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before the Bills and running back James Cook agreed to terms on a new deal, the Rams and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-67423","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\/67423","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=67423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}