The Los Angeles Rams wasted no time locking up their newest acquisition. Cornerback Trent McDuffie has agreed to a four-year, $124 million extension with the Rams that includes $100 million guaranteed, per ESPN's Adam Schefter. The deal makes the 25-year-old the highest-paid cornerback in NFL history at $31 million per year, surpassing the Indianapolis Colts' Sauce Gardner ($30.1M) and the Houston Texans' Derek Stingley Jr.
McDuffie was acquired from the Kansas City Chiefs earlier this week in a trade that cost the Rams their No. 29 pick in the 2026 NFL draft, along with 2026 fifth- and sixth-round selections and a 2027 third-rounder.
He was entering the final year of his rookie deal with a $13.6 million fifth-year option already guaranteed. In 56 career games with Kansas City, McDuffie recorded three interceptions, 34 pass breakups, 5.5 sacks, and 246 total tackles while earning AP first-team All-Pro honors in 2023 and winning two Super Bowls. A Southern California native who played his senior year of high school at St. John Bosco, McDuffie will now return home — a reunion that, by all accounts, he had been looking forward to for some time.
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