{"id":838009,"date":"2026-09-06T03:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T03:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838009\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T03:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T03:12:10","slug":"christian-gonzalez-doesnt-commit-to-playing-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838009\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Gonzalez doesn&#8217;t commit to playing season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patriots cornerback Christian Gonzalez still doesn\u2019t have a contract extension, and with the season opener only four days away, he isn\u2019t not committing to playing without one.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez continues to take a day-to-day approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2026\/09\/05\/how-patriots-christian-gonzalez-mike-vrabel-addressed-ongoing-contract-talks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I\u2019m focused on today<\/a>,\u201d Gonzalez said, via Doug Kyed of the Boston Herald. \u201cRight now, it is practice in what, a couple, 30 minutes, 40 minutes. Worried on that right now, so we\u2019ll focus on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez answered \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d when asked if contract talks were progressing.<\/p>\n<p>The Seahawks recently signed cornerback Devon Witherspoon to a four-year, $132 million deal, which should provide a template for the Patriots. Gonzalez and Witherspoon have the same agent, Reggie Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez is under contract for the next two seasons and is scheduled to make a base salary of $2.259 million this season.<\/p>\n<p>The 17th overall pick in 2023, he 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<p>He said Thursday he is \u201cstill frustrated\u201d a deal isn\u2019t done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patriots cornerback Christian Gonzalez still doesn\u2019t have a contract extension, and with the season opener only four days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-838009","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\/838009","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=838009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}