{"id":481635,"date":"2024-04-07T16:41:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T20:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481635"},"modified":"2024-04-07T16:41:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T20:41:21","slug":"patriots-dugger-agree-to-4-year-58-million-dollar-contract","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/patriots-dugger-agree-to-4-year-58-million-dollar-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots, Dugger agree to 4-year, 58 million dollar contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New England Patriots and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/kyle-dugger\/\">Kyle Dugger<\/a> have agreed to a 4-year extension.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just in: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Patriots?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Patriots<\/a> and S Kyle Dugger have reached agreement on a 4-year extension worth $58M to keep him in New England, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeGarafolo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MikeGarafolo<\/a>. Dugger was transition tagged earlier this offseason. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bfLj01UxG0\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bfLj01UxG0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySportsUpdate\/status\/1776962710745289097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The deal has a base value of 58 million dollars and can be worth an additional 8 million dollars as 32 million are guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle\u2019s new contract has an average annual value of almost 15 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Dugger had received the transition tag from the franchise in March, restricting his free agency. If he had competed in the upcoming season on a tag, Kyle would have been paid almost 14 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Only 5 National Football League footballers had received the transition tag in the last 10 seasons, but he is the 1<sup>st<\/sup> safety in that list.<\/p>\n<p>The contract comes as New England are set to start their voluntary offseason program in the upcoming days, as manager Jerod Mayo want to build a culture to be selected and developed by the organization.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Dugger had become the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Pats defender since 1970 to score 3 TDs in a campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New England Patriots and Kyle Dugger have agreed to a 4-year extension. Just in: The #Patriots and S Kyle Dugger have reached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":481636,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17487,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[22842,18130,17873],"acf":{"announce":"New England and the safety agreed to a 4-season deal.","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\/481635"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481637,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481635\/revisions\/481637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481635"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481635"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}