Patriots Rumors: Extension Agreed Upon With Standout Defender

Patriots safety Jabrill Peppers made something abundantly clear Wednesday.

“I don’t really speak on contract situations,” Peppers said, following the club’s opening training camp practice. “I pay someone to do that for me.”

It might be time to start paying more.

Peppers was finalizing a three-year extension with New England on Friday, according to ESPN’s Field Yates. The Patriots are expected to give their standout safety a base value of $24 million, with the contract having a max value of $30 million.

Peppers has been extremely important to the Patriots’ defense since arriving to One Patriot Place, recording 138 total tackles across 32 games — fourth-most in that stretch. New England deployed him on 96% of snaps in 2023, a huge jump from the 35% he played behind Devin McCourty and Kyle Dugger in 2022.

Jerod Mayo and Eliot Wolf made a habit of re-signing and extending players this offseason, with Peppers joining Dugger, Christian Barmore, Rhamondre Stevenson, Mike Onwenu, Hunter Henry, Kendrick Bourne, Anfernee Jennings and Joshua Uche as guys who received new deals.