{"id":490199,"date":"2026-02-25T19:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/490199\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T19:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:59:07","slug":"bills-talking-to-dawson-knox-about-his-tough-cap-number-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/490199\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills talking to Dawson Knox about his &#8220;tough&#8221; cap number for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tight end Dawson Knox\u2019s contract has been a topic of conversation for Bills General Manager Brandon Beane in the early days of the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Knox is heading into the final year of his contract and is set to have a cap number of $17.068 million for the 2026 season. Beane called that \u201ca tough number\u201d while speaking to reporters from the Scouting Combine in Indianapolis on Tuesday and said the team has had conversations with the tight end about ways to proceed. <\/p>\n<p>Releasing Knox would clear over $9.6 million in cap room, but leave $7.4 million in dead money. Beane said that there is still time to come up with other solutions that would lower Knox\u2019s cap hit while keeping him in Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not to the point where we need to do anything yet. We\u2019ll <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/wgr550\/sports\/bills\/beane-addresses-knoxs-future-with-bills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">continue those<\/a>,\u201d Beane said, via Sal Capaccio of WGR. \u201cLike many decisions we have, we\u2019re down to a couple weeks to make those. So there\u2019s no answer. There\u2019s no resolution in the next 24 hours or anything like that, but the discussions have happened and they\u2019ll be done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Knox was a 2019 third-round pick and has spent his entire career with the Bills. He had 36 catches for 417 yards and four touchdowns last season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tight end Dawson Knox\u2019s contract has been a topic of conversation for Bills General Manager Brandon Beane in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-490199","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\/490199","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=490199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}