{"id":123265,"date":"2025-08-31T18:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T18:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/123265\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T18:11:07","slug":"source-cowboys-daron-bland-reach-4-year-92m-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/123265\/","title":{"rendered":"Source &#8211; Cowboys, DaRon Bland reach 4-year, $92M extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756663867_419_archer_todd.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Todd ArcherAug 31, 2025, 01:41 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a>Todd Archer is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Dallas Cowboys. Archer has covered the NFL since 1997 and Dallas since 2003. He joined ESPN in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"b0fc8fb7-9dbe-e574-9008-6f0ee7c6b234\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/dal\/dallas-cowboys\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> and cornerback <a data-player-guid=\"56bf5e73-af9f-4f22-1696-7a1b57d5f9b2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4248911\/daron-bland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DaRon Bland<\/a> have agreed to a four-year extension worth $92 million, a source told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys were in discussions with Bland before the <a data-player-guid=\"19e0d5a6-9c4e-83d1-c9c2-5cfa322727f5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4361423\/micah-parsons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Micah Parsons<\/a> trade, the source told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>Bland, 26, was named a first-team All-Pro in 2023 when he led the NFL with nine interceptions and set an NFL record for most returns for a touchdown in a season with five.<\/p>\n<p>He has 14 interceptions in three seasons with the Cowboys since they selected him in the fifth round of the 2022 draft.<\/p>\n<p>He is the second member of the Cowboys&#8217; 2022 draft class to receive an extension this year, joining tight end <a data-player-guid=\"88132b4d-ad57-d110-91a4-626c11215a70\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4242355\/jake-ferguson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Ferguson<\/a>, who signed a four-year, $52 million deal in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Todd ArcherAug 31, 2025, 01:41 PM ET CloseTodd Archer is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-123265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}