April 20, 2026, 10:06 p.m. MT<\/p>\n
The Arizona Cardinals will have to deal with one of the best left tackles in the NFL for potentially another couple of seasons. Avoiding a potential lengthy offseason contract dispute, the San Francisco 49ers and left tackle Trent Williams agreed to a two-year, $50 million extension<\/a> that keeps him around through 2027.<\/p>\n Williams will turn 38 years old in July, but the 12-time Pro Bowler and three-time first-team All-Pro is still great.<\/p>\n He gets a $22 million signing bonus and $37 million guaranteed.<\/p>\n If he plays out both seasons, it means the Cardinals will have to deal with him protecting 49ers quarterbacks and creating holes in the run game at least four more times.<\/p>\n The $25 million per-year average on the extension is something to watch, as the Cardinals will be negotiating an extension with left tackle Paris Johnson. Johnson has said he wants to be a $40 million per-year man. With Williams’ deal, we will see how that impacts future left tackle contracts.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n Get more Cardinals<\/a> and NFL coverage from Cards<\/a> Wire’s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 20, 2026, 10:06 p.m. MT The Arizona Cardinals will have to deal with one of the best…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[243,101,103,102,104,106,105,30699,29908,378,379,366,508,48161,9203,377,18483,246],"class_list":["post-278064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-accessfree","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sstssportsnflcardinals","tag-sstsncardinals","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagparis-johnson-jr","tag-tagsmg-timely","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtrent-williams","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}