{"id":429748,"date":"2023-03-12T17:05:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T21:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=429748"},"modified":"2023-03-12T17:14:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T21:14:36","slug":"buffalo-bills-and-matt-milano-extend-their-deal-through-2026-seson","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/buffalo-bills-and-matt-milano-extend-their-deal-through-2026-seson\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Bills and Matt Milano extend their deal through 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/buffalo-bills\/\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> agreed to terms on a contract extension through the 2026 season with the All-Pro linebacker <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/matt-milano\/\">Matt Milano<\/a>, the team announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Milano signed with the team in 2021 on a four-year deal, and his extension will free up some salary cap space for the Bills.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Agreed to terms with LB Matt Milano on a two-year contract extension, extending his contract through 2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2hqQHCw6FS\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2hqQHCw6FS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Buffalo Bills PR (@BuffaloBillsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuffaloBillsPR\/status\/1634962476940021760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A fifth-round selection of the Bills in 2017, Milano has become a constant contributor at the center of the team&#8217;s defense. The linebacker tied a career-high with three interceptions and racked up 99 tackles past season to earn Pro Bowl and All-Pro honors for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Over six seasons, Milano has played in 85 games with 69 starts. He&#8217;s piled up 458 tackles, 10.5 sacks and eight interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Bills agreed to terms on a contract extension through the 2026 season with the All-Pro linebacker Matt Milano, the team announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":429749,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17370],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18188,18187],"acf":{"announce":"The linebacker is part of the team since 2017","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/429748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/429748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429748"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=429748"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=429748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}