{"id":24473,"date":"2025-08-13T07:50:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/james-cook-and-bills-contract-extension-for-48m-after-hold-in\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T07:50:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:50:50","slug":"james-cook-and-bills-contract-extension-for-48m-after-hold-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nfl\/james-cook-and-bills-contract-extension-for-48m-after-hold-in\/","title":{"rendered":"James Cook and Bills: Contract extension for $48M after &#8220;hold-in&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>James Cook Secures His Future with the Bills: Million-Dollar Extension<\/h2>\n\nRunning back James Cook and the Buffalo Bills have reached an agreement on a four-year, $48 million contract extension, according to his agents to Alofoke Deportes.\n\nThe agreement includes a $30 million guarantee, the highest figure for a broker in the last five years.\n\nThis extension comes a day after Cook returned to Bills training on Tuesday, after a four-day absence that included missing the team&#8217;s first preseason game.\n\nCook actively participated in Tuesday&#8217;s session, wearing the full uniform.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>James could only imagine himself as a Buffalo Bill. We are very grateful to the entire Bills organization and happy that we were able to achieve this.<\/p><cite>James Cook&#8217;s Agent<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe Bills had expressed their desire to reward Cook throughout the offseason, with negotiations that began early and extended into training camp.\n\nCook is Buffalo&#8217;s lead running back, although he is part of a group. Last season, he was on the field for just over 45% of offensive plays, with Ty Johnson and Ray Davis also receiving opportunities.\n\nIn a Bills offense that broke several records, Cook tied a team record with 16 rushing touchdowns in 2024 and was fifth in yards before contact per carry (3.1). He took a significant step during the 2024 season, doubling his touchdown total from the previous two seasons (nine) in a single year (18).","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Cook Secures His Future with the Bills: Million-Dollar Extension Running back James Cook and the Buffalo Bills have reached an agreement on a four-year, $48 million contract extension, according to his agents to Alofoke Deportes. The agreement includes a $30 million guarantee, the highest figure for a broker in the last five years. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[2756,65,289,6273],"class_list":{"0":"post-24473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-buffalo-bills","9":"tag-contract","10":"tag-extension","11":"tag-james-cook"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}