ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Rex Ryan wishes he could have been a better football player, rather than a coach, after seeing Bills defensive tackle Marcell Dareus signing a whopping $100-plus-million contract extension.
As consolation, Ryan will settle on having Dareus anchoring Buffalo’s dominant defensive front for a long time to come.
“That’s fantastic,” Ryan said Thursday after Dareus signed a six-year contract extension that makes him the team’s top-paid player. “He’s ours, and obviously we’re happy about that.”
A person familiar with negotiations revealed the length and value of the contract to The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because the team did not disclose those figures.
The extension kicks in after this season, and it means the Bills will now have two $100 million starting defensive linemen. The value of Dareus’ new deal surpasses the sixyear, $100 million contract the Bills signed defensive end Mario Williams to during free agency in March 2012.
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