Spencer Brown and Josh Allen among Buffalo Bills who could soon see new contract

The Buffalo Bills underwent numerous roster cuts this offseason, reducing their roster in order to reset with cap space for free agency in 2025. Something One Bills Drive will need to do is distribute some contracts to current members of the organization to keep them.

The Bills have already reached a few contract extensions during the 2024 offseason, including defensive end Greg Rousseau’s fifth-year option for 2025, left tackle Dion Dawkins’ three-year extension and a three-year contract with nickel cornerback Taron Johnson. Several players also remained, with new contracts for potential free agents like defensive end AJ Epenesa, safety Taylor Rapp, defensive back Cam Lewis and defensive tackle DaQuan Jones.

So who is next for a new Bills contract? We’ll take a look.

OT Spencer Brown (UFA 2025)

The Bills re-signed left tackle Dion Dawkins this offseason to a contract that keeps him in Buffalo through 2027. Brown is entering the final year of his rookie deal and has played his best ball in 2023. If the Bills l ‘locked in, they have a chance to buy at a low price. If he has another good season, it could cost him dearly from Buffalo.

General manager Brandon Beane spoke with former Bills center Eric Wood on his podcast earlier this offseason and talked about Brown’s growth since missing his senior year of college due to restrictions to COVID-19 until his injury in his sophomore season, and how they developed him coming from Northern Iowa. After all this work, you’d want to keep it, wouldn’t you?

I haven’t done a market analysis, but it shouldn’t surprise anyone to see him making at least $12 million per season, which puts him in the top 10 right tackles in the NFL – or even higher.

BY Greg Rousseau (UFA 2026)

Rousseau is another low-cost prospect after he really started to turn it on in his third NFL season. With Leonard Floyd gone, 2024 could be a breakout season for the former first-round pick. He has two years left on his contract and will earn $13.3 million on his fifth-year option in 2025, but they can lower his cap hit next season if they put him on a long-term contract. With the likelihood that Von Miller will be gone after 2024, Rousseau should be your best passer sooner rather than later.

Rousseau isn’t in the running for a (Jaguars) Josh Allen-type deal at the top of the market after 17 career sacks in three seasons, but I think expecting him to sign for less than $13 million per season is over. Don’t expect him to be anywhere near AJ Epenesa’s $6 million per year contract.

CB Rasul Douglas (UFA 2025)

I really thought they could do it in the spring, but instead the Bills simply pushed some of Douglas’s cap hit into the future. As it stands, if Douglas is not on the roster at the start of the 2025 league year, he will count $4.125 million against the cap. Giving him an extension for a year or two will push that into the future.

I don’t expect this deal to be done before training camp and it might even depend on the progress of third-year cornerback Kaiir Elam. If Douglas is one of the Bills’ two starters this year and they don’t see the possibility of Elam becoming a starter in 2025, they are likely to give Douglas another year or two on his contract and lock the job.

He makes $7.5 million in 2024, but only one cornerback older than Douglas makes more than that (Darius Slay with the Philadelphia Eagles). To me, that seems like a reasonable amount of money for Douglas on an annual basis.

S Damar Hamlin (UFA 2025)

Hamlin is not a player I would spend a lot of money on. But with the turnover at the safety position, if he tends to make the training camp roster, Buffalo could sign him to a modest extension along the same lines as Cam Lewis.

Lewis signed for two years and $3.1 million, which is the NFL minimum salary plus a $425,000 signing bonus, a $25,000 annual workout bonus and $7,000 per-game bonuses. (up to $119,000) per season.

The tricky thing from Hamlin’s point of view is that he can probably make a pretty good living on the motivational speaker circuit. This could play a role, and give him more power if that were the case.

QB Josh Allen (UFA 2029)

We’re literally only a year away from Josh Allen’s extension right now, but he’s already become the 11th highest-paid quarterback in the NFL on an annual basis with upcoming deals for quarterbacks Dak Prescott and Tua Tagovailoa who are likely to pass. him too.

Allen is expected to make less than $70 million over the next two seasons, while Lamar Jackson made $80 million in 2023 alone. Allen may not sign an “extension,” but he certainly should sign an new contract at some point that will put money at the forefront of his deal. Starting in 2025, Allen’s cash payments climb north of $38.5 million and Buffalo could do him some good by starting in 2024 instead and taking them in future years.

The Chiefs did it with Patrick Mahomes in September 2023, raising more than $43 million from the end of his contract through the 2023 to 2026 championship years. He ended up making $59 million in 2023 and $46 million in dollars in 2024, but he’s now only projected to make $27.175 million in 2028. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that won’t happen and he’ll get another new contract. before this date.