{"id":485878,"date":"2024-08-01T14:13:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T18:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485878"},"modified":"2024-08-01T14:13:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T18:13:07","slug":"wirfs-agree-to-over-140-million-dollar-extension-with-buccaneers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/wirfs-agree-to-over-140-million-dollar-extension-with-buccaneers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wirfs agree to over 140 million dollar extension with Buccaneers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and OT Tristan Wirfs have reached an agreement on a 5-year, 140.63 million dollar deal extension that makes him the highest-paid offensive lineman in National Football League history.<\/p>\n<p>The contract features over 88 million dollars guaranteed, the most guaranteed money for any OT in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Tristan, a 3-time Pro Bowler, was in the final season of his rookie deal and slated to play under the 5<sup>th<\/sup>-year option that paid over 18 million dollars this season. Wirfs is now contractually tied to the Bucs through 2029.<\/p>\n<p>His 28.1 million dollar salary passes the 28 million dollars per season that the Lions\u2019 Sewell secured a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The lineman reported to a mandatory minicamp last month but did not participate so as not to risk injury. Tampa Bay manager Todd Bowles revealed a few days ago that the team and Tristan were close to securing a deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tristan Wirfs since entering the NFL:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc8No. 13 overall pick<br \/>\ud83c\udfc83x Pro-Bowl selection<br \/>\ud83c\udfc82x All-Pro selection<br \/>\ud83c\udfc8Super-Bowl champion<br \/>\ud83c\udfc8Three seasons at RT, last season at LT<br \/>\ud83c\udfc8Highest-paid OL in NFL history<br \/>\ud83c\udfc8Highest-paid Buccaneer in history.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1818984182426607700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tristan thanked his Buccaneers teammates at the beginning of the week for supporting him during the talks about an extension.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Video: Hugs and fist bumps all over as Tristan Wirfs takes the field after signing a $140 million deal that keeps him with the Bucs through the 2029 season. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/soTw4gbny0\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/soTw4gbny0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Greg Auman (@gregauman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gregauman\/status\/1818986714888540412?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and OT Tristan Wirfs have reached an agreement on a 5-year, 140.63 million dollar deal extension that makes him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":485879,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17324,16750],"news_category":[16703,14084],"gn_keywords":[17873,18185,23239],"acf":{"announce":"Tristan became the top-paid O-lineman in the NFL.","video":["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\/485878"}],"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=485878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485880,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485878\/revisions\/485880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485878"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485878"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}