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The Bills want Josh Allen to sign a long-term agreement, and Josh Allen wants to sign a long-term agreement with the Bills. The Bills do not want to make a deal because they know they have a fifth-year option to ensure the quarterback stays in Buffalo at least through the 2022 season.
But the fifth-year option could be more urgent to finalize a deal before the 2022 season, as the bills have two players drafting them in the first round in 2018.
The team has until May 3 to exercise the fifth-year options for Allen and Tremaine Edmunds. Allen’s fifth-year option is worth $ 23.106 million, while Edmunds’ $ 12.716 million.
“The short answer is that we will wait until the concept is figured out,” Brandon Beane, general manager, told NFL Media. ‘We’ve had some discussions, but it’s going to come to the fore once the draft is ready.
‘The hard part of this year is going to be, the hood has gone down, [we] do not know exactly where it will be next year, probably not a big increase. Josh’s number is in his 20s due to a Pro Bowl. Tremaine made a few Pro Bowls, he hit 13. You can’t really be flexible with the cap numbers, so we need to make sure that if we both pick up, we’re close to 35 million years of cap. From there, it’s not an ideal scenario to pick both up and not expand, so we just need to figure out how to make it work in our system. But we will get the answer as soon as the concept is over. ”
There is no decision to be made: The Bills select options for both players. However, a change in the collective bargaining agreement makes the fifth-year option fully guaranteed once it is exercised.
The ideal scenario for the Bills is to conclude long-term deals with both players at some point in the next year.