Patriots cornerback Christian Gonzalez wants a long-term deal, and the Patriots want to sign him to a long-term deal. He shares an agent with Seahawks cornerback Devon Witherspoon, though, and Ian Rapoport reports that Witherspoon is \u201cfurther along\u201d in talks.<\/p>\n
The Seahawks have offered a deal that would pay Witherspoon \u201cupwards of $30 million\u201d annually, per Rapoport. That would make Witherspoon among the highest-paid cornerbacks in the league.<\/p>\n
Rams cornerback Trent McDuffie is at the top of the market at the position with an annual average of $31 million. Indianapolis\u2019 Sauce Gardner and Houston\u2019s Derek Stingley Jr. are at $30 million annually.<\/p>\n
Gonzalez, who is scheduled to make $2.259 million this season, won\u2019t be far behind Witherspoon in getting a new deal.<\/p>\n
The 17th overall pick in 2023 made second-team All-Pro in 2024 and the Pro Bowl in 2025. He has totaled 145 tackles, two interceptions, 24 pass breakups and a sack in three seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patriots cornerback Christian Gonzalez wants a long-term deal, and the Patriots want to sign him to a long-term…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-777055","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\/777055","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=777055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}