Buffalo Bills right guard O’Cyrus Torrence and Jets right guard Joe Tippman were selected in the same draft and same round (2023, Round 2) and now Tippman has a shiny new contract extension. You can bet Torrence and his representatives are going to use that deal’s parameters when they begin to negotiate his second NFL contract.
NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport was first on the Tippman news:
I will always mention that the initial reporting of any NFL contract is inflated to its absolute maximum. Also the “guaranteed” figure is almost always total guarantees, not full guarantees, and there’s a difference.
The term “total guarantees” is the amount of money that can become guaranteed throughout the life of a contract, while “full guarantees” are 100% guaranteed the second the contract is signed.
Among right guards — that’s where Tippman, a former center, has settled in — the $34.9M in total guarantees for the Jets blocker is the seventh-highest figure at the position.
I, frankly, don’t analyze much else with NFL contracts, not even average per year, because maximum values are too easily inflated. But for those who do like APY — and it does seem like agents, players, and teams use it frequently — Tippman’s deal is for $16.6M APY, which is also the seventh-most among right guards.
As for performance, Tippman has surrendered 72 pressures on 1,929 pass-blocking snaps through three seasons (3.7% pressure rate). If we only use his 2025 campaign, the first he fully spent at right guard in the NFL, Tippman’s pressure rate was 4.5%.
Torrence, a full-time right guard compared to just one full season there for Tippman, has a career pressure rate allowed in the regular season of 5.6%. In 2025, it was 5.0%. The two are very comparable as pass protectors. Torrence is more of a mauling, power-based blocker, while Tippman wins in the run game more with mobility.
Torrence has been called for 14 penalties in the regular season to date. Tippman has been flagged 19 times.
Tippman has back-to-back seasons of 1,000-plus snaps. Torrence has gone over 1,000 snaps in three-consecutive regular seasons for the Bills.
Before this Tippman extension, it was somewhat of a challenge to discern how much Torrence could reasonably get in a second deal with the Bills. Other recently signed right guard deals were for players decidedly more effective or much older than Torrence.
Now, by examining the Tippman deal to stay with the Jets, we know what a new deal for Torrence will likely look like — somewhere in the $16M APY range — if the Bills decide to sign him before he hits the free-agent market after the 2026 season.
