Patriots have extended most of their stars. So how about their best player?

Henry McKenna

AFC East Reporter

The New England Patriots may not have brought in a big class of free agents this offseason, but executive vice president of player personnel Eliot Wolf has clearly made a point of retaining the talented stars the team already had. 

New England has extended a number of its best players, starting with those entering free agency. Wolf then continued by giving raises to players who were underpaid or slated to hit free agency next offseason.

The list is as follows: 

DT Christian Barmore ($84 million, four years)
OT Michael Onwenu ($57 million, three years)
SS Kyle Dugger ($58 million, four years)
RB Rhamondre Stevenson ($36 million, four years)
TE Hunter Henry ($30 million, three years)
C David Andrews ($12 million, two years)
LB Jahlani Tavai ($15 million, three years)

But there’s an all-important Patriot who’s still waiting to get paid: four-time Pro Bowl edge Matthew Judon.

Judon tweeted on July 3 that he thought the extension was “about to happen” before following up with the SpongeBob GIF that says “aight imma head out.” 

Which begs the question: Head out, like leave Twitter/X? Or head out, like leave the Patriots?

So far as Judon has indicated, things are progressing in the right direction for an extension. 

“We ain’t far apart,” he told reporters during minicamp. “The money will come. It’ll come if I’m good enough, right? If they value what I do.”

That he was present for mandatory minicamp spoke to his good standing with the Patriots. It is, after all, the perfect event for players to skip in order to stage a holdout. Those holdouts incur fines that are often minimal if they lead to a multi-million extension for the player. This year, Judon decided to attend.

“Right now, I’m just gonna get ready to play,” he said last month. “You kind of keep throwing tantrums, tantrums, tantrums, and then you don’t come out there and do what you’re supposed to do? It kind of gets old real fast, you…

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Publish date : 2024-07-05 19:40:21

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