The director general of Buffalo Bills, Brandon Beane, took the podium during annual NFL meetings in 2025 to speak to the press of the Tickets and the off -season of the NFL.
One of the subjects raised was that of the extensions of the team of their own players and the status of one for RB1 James Cook after its first season in small groups.
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The director general of the past few weeks has inked the quarter-rear Josh Allen to a new agreement and has extended the Large Receiver Khalil Shakir, the defensive winger Greg Rousseau, the second Terl Bernard and the corner Christian Benford.
Although he hopes to make one in the future, Beane has given the impression that invoices do not yet provide a new agreement with Cook.
“I like [James]. Proud of its success, just like these other guys we have extended, “Beane told the media.” I’m not talking about negotiations. I would say that his representatives and he put him there that we talked about, so I do not share anything new. This did not lead anything to the conclusion of an agreement, so we went to the guys with whom we are on the same wavelength. At this point, we are on the project … I do not see us doing sites of sites. We will focus on the project and get our ceiling in order. “”
Cook was drafted in the second round in n ° 63 in total by Buffalo in 2022 in Georgia. He made two consecutive pro-corks with more than 1000 consecutive precipitation seasons, and has just ended the best year of his career in 2024 with a career top of 16 affected. The 25 -year -old is entering the last year of his recruit contract and made known his desire for a new agreement.
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Very publicly, in fact.
While negotiations seem to be underway and Cook seems to have settled for the moment with culture and ways of doing things internally, he has become a public in February on social networks with his request for an increase of $ 15 million per year which would make him the third highest RB of the League after the Barkley generation talents.
Although the Cook season was strong enough to put it at the top of the league in key statistical categories (a level all involved hoping that it will continue to perform at), it was only a season and the first of its kind for it in terms of reaching this level of success.
He made the public display and insisted on the increase in illogical remuneration in his calendar and his request, as well as excluding character for Cook and for a Bills player.
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It is enough to say, like the four other bills that have put pen on paper on new pacts, if Cook and his camp wanted to conclude a friendly agreement now, they would have done it. Beane himself said that the offers that were concluded were with players who were “on the same wavelength with” the team.
He also clarified: “It is not signed James that James does not mean that next year, we cannot do it before he reaches the free agency.”
Bills can also use the deductible or the transition beacon to extend it until a new agreement is concluded. And with a distributed rear field of Ty Johnson and Ray Davis sharing return and ground tasks as well as Samuel who can take more races while he finds form in the Brady system, time will say if Cook will reproduce or rely on his most successful season to date.
But for the moment, on the project.
This article originally appeared on Bills Wire: Bills GM Brandon Beane on the cook extension: “We are on the project … I don’t see us making offers anytime”
