Bills' Fitzpatrick to sign six-year extension worth up to $60 million

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Bills' Fitzpatrick to sign six-year extension worth up to $60 million

• <LI id=article-hdr-meta-author>By Jason La Canfora NFL Network
• NFL Network Insider
• Published: Oct. 28, 2011 at 01:33 p.m.
• Updated: Oct. 28, 2011 at 02:39 p.m.

Buffalo Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick has agreed to a multiyear extension Friday, according to a league source.

Fitzpatrick's extension will be for an additional six years, and is worth just under a maximum of $60 million, with $24 million guaranteed, according to the source.

The sides are still putting minor issues with certain language in the contract to bed, but the financial details are in place and the contract is set to be signed Friday.

Fitzpatrick would have been a free agent this offseason -- likely the top available quarterback -- but the former journeyman has been a great fit in Chan Gailey's offense to the point that the Bills did not draft a quarterback in the spring and have spent much of this season trying to get Fitzpatrick extended.

Fitzpatrick, 28, was informed of the development immediately after practice Friday.

Fitzpatrick is completing the final year of a three-year contract, and has a 13-15 record with the Bills. Fitzpatrick broke into the league as the St. Louis Rams' seventh-round draft pick in 2005.
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[Crow]

This has the feeling of flash in the pan major overreaction on the level of Cassel.

[Masters]

I don't know about flash in pan. Fitzpatrick had a good year last year and having an even better one this year. The contract they just gave him really isn't that much for a QB. Not like they gave him Brady/Brees/Vick/Peyton money. This contract is actually worth less than Cassel got (6/yr $63 million, with $28 million guaranteed)

[Jax Dawg]

Fitzpatrick looked so awful a few years a go in Cincy I didn't think he would last in the NFL...Sometimes QBs just get it later than others either by being in the right situation and/or everything just starting to click. Good for him, gives me a little hope for our QB.