{"id":267635,"date":"2026-03-09T15:59:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=267635"},"modified":"2026-03-09T15:59:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:59:47","slug":"super-bowl-champion-guard-agrees-to-contract-with-new-orleans-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2026\/03\/09\/super-bowl-champion-guard-agrees-to-contract-with-new-orleans-saints\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl Champion Guard Agrees to Contract With New Orleans Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seven-year veteran offensive guard David Edwards agreed to a new four-year, $61 million contract<\/a> with the New Orleans Saints. Edwards, a former fifth-round pick and one-time Super Bowl champion, spent the 2025 season with the Buffalo Bills but has also played for the Los Angeles Rams.<\/p>\n

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David Edwards, Saints, Agree to Contract<\/h2>\n

While the Bills didn’t win the Super Bowl, David Edwards played a key role on one of the league’s best offensive lines. Appearing in all 17 games, the Wisconsin product kept quarterback Josh Allen upright and finished the season with a 70.3 PFF grade, the 22nd-best mark out of 79 eligible players at his position. Buffalo earned a playoff spot and defeated the Jacksonville Jaguars in the Wild Card round, but ultimately fell to the Denver Broncos in an overtime thriller.<\/p>\n

David Edwards originally entered the league as a fifth-round pick in the 2019 NFL Draft<\/a>. Selected by the Los Angeles Rams<\/a>, the Wisconsin product began his career on the bench but quickly earned a starting job. Appearing in all 16 games, the rookie finished his inaugural season with a respectable 61.0 PFF grade. Edwards built on this promising campaign and earned a full-time starting job in each of the next three seasons. While he played through the 2020 and 2021 seasons, a concussion limited him to just four games in 2022.<\/p>\n

With no starting jobs available, David Edwards had no choice but to sign a one-year contract with the Buffalo Bills as a free agent. He didn’t start that year, but he played well enough to earn a two-year deal after the season. He then earned the starting guard job and never looked back.<\/p>\n

David Edwards helped Sean McVay, Matthew Stafford, and the Los Angeles Rams win the Super Bowl in 2021 when they defeated second-year quarterback Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> on the game’s biggest stage.<\/p>\n

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Veteran guard David Edwards has signed a new contract after spending the 2025 season blocking for Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":267642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3,28,6431],"tags":[7705,4704,7752,1608,7659],"class_list":["post-267635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-bills","category-saints","category-nfl-teams","tag-buffalo-bills-news","tag-david-edwards","tag-new-orleans-saints-news","tag-nfl-free-agency","tag-saints-featured"],"modified_by":"Drew Crabtree","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268604,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267635\/revisions\/268604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}