FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — The Atlanta Falcons are continuing to lock up their young starters to long-term contracts.<\/p>\n
The Falcons announced Saturday a four-year contract extension for starting left guard Matthew Bergeron. The deal is worth $96 million with $60 million guaranteed, sources told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler and NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo. Bergeron would have been a free agent at the end of the season.<\/p>\n
“Matthew is the type of player you build around,” Falcons general manager Ian Cunningham said in a statement. “He’s establishing himself as one of the top young guards in the NFL, and his toughness, consistency and leadership have made him a cornerstone of our offensive line and the culture we’re building in Atlanta.”<\/p>\n
Bergeron is the third player signed to an extension by the Falcons over the past two months. He joins wide receiver Drake London and tight end\u00a0Kyle Pitts Sr.\u00a0with long-term deals. Atlanta still needs to work out an extension with running back Bijan Robinson, who is holding in during training camp.<\/p>\n
Bergeron, 26, was a second-round pick in 2023 out of Syracuse. The Canada native was a starter at left guard from Day 1 in Atlanta. He missed two games last season but otherwise has started every game since 2023 for the Falcons at the position, 49 total.<\/p>\n
“This means the world,” Bergeron told AtlantaFalcons.com. “I’m from Canada, and the second I got to Atlanta everybody welcomed me with open arms. Atlanta is a special place for me and my family. And now, I have the resources to give back to a community that has given me so much and changed my life.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — The Atlanta Falcons are continuing to lock up their young starters to long-term contracts.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[81573,49,48,292977,82],"class_list":["post-841332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-atlanta-falcons-sports-football-team-team-statscom-323","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-matthew-bergeron-sports-football-player-player-statscom-1175825","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841332","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=841332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}