Buffalo Bills, LB Von Miller agree on six-yr settlement; TE O.J. Howard gets 1-year deal
Eight-time Pro Bowl linebacker Von Miller has agreed to terms with the Buffalo Bills on a six-yr contract, the team announced Wednesday.
Miller's deal is worth $a hundred and twenty million, in line with multiple reports. Sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter that it consists of $fifty one.5 million assured, which includes $forty five million absolutely assured at signing.
The Bills also delivered in the veteran tight end they have been looking for, agreeing with former Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight quit O.J. Howard on a one-12 months agreement. Sources advised Schefter it's a $3.5 million deal that could be worth up to $five million.
Miller at once turns into the fine bypass-rusher on the Bills' roster, in spite of the group notably making an investment in shielding ends inside the beyond two drafts. Buffalo has used two second-spherical choices and one first-round selection on the location inside the beyond years but lacked a participant that opposing offenses needed to be always aware of. Miller brings the Bills just that.
Miller, who turns 33 on March 26, became a key piece of the Los Angeles Rams' run to the Super Bowl championship after he changed into acquired from the Denver Broncos in November for 2022 2d- and third-round selections.
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Initially slowed by means of an ankle injury suffered whilst still in Denver, Miller recorded 5 sacks for the Rams in 8 normal-season video games, rating 12th in ESPN's bypass rush win charge metric (20.9%). He then proceeded to record four extra sacks within the postseason, consisting of two of the Cincinnati Bengals' Joe Burrow within the Rams' 23-20 victory in Super Bowl LVI.
Miller's postseason skip rush win charge of forty one.Five% became through a ways the best via a player in a unmarried postseason (with not less than 30 skip rush plays with a win or loss) seeing that ESPN began monitoring that metric in 2017. He and teammate Aaron Donald each had 18 pressures inside the Rams' four playoff video games.
It turned into Miller's second Super Bowl championship. He was named the Super Bowl 50 MVP while he had 2.Five sacks within the Broncos' 24-10 victory over the Carolina Panthers.
Buffalo has no longer had a participant finish a season with 10-plus sacks for the reason that Lorenzo Alexander in 2016 (12.5). Mario Addison become the best Bills defender with as a minimum five sacks last season (seven). The Bills had been one in all 4 teams (Houston Texans, Atlanta Falcons, Kansas City Chiefs) that had one or fewer gamers with five-plus sacks. The team changed into involved within the pursuit of different veteran bypass-rushers this offseason, in addition to rounding out the protective line with different free-agent signings.
Miller leads all active players with a hundred and fifteen.5 sacks in his profession. He has recorded as a minimum 10 sacks in seven of his 10 NFL seasons, which include a career-pleasant 18.5 in 2012 while he completed second in Defensive Player of the Year voting. He overlooked the 2020 season because of a left ankle injury that required surgical operation.
He become John Elway's first draft choose for the Broncos (2d general in 2011) and went on to be named Defensive Rookie of the Year that season. He have become one of the most decorated gamers in Broncos' franchise records with 8 Pro Bowl selections and three first-crew All-Pro choices, and he changed into selected for the all-decade crew for the 2010s by way of the Hall of Fame's board of selectors
Howard, 27, will paintings alongside tight quit Dawson Knox, who's coming off a profession season, catching 49 passes for 587 yards. Knox, who became a pass-to target for quarterback Josh Allen, completed 2021 tied with Buccaneers tight cease Rob Gronkowski for the most receiving touchdowns at the placement (nine).
Howard will upload yet some other weapon for Allen and possibly introduce extra tight-quit units to the offense below first-yr coordinator Ken Dorsey. The Bills used -plus tight ends on a league-low a hundred performs last season, according to ESPN Stats & Information research. Howard had four hundred-plus receiving yards in three straight seasons to begin his profession, earlier than Gronkowski's arrival in Tampa Bay.
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