Von Miller Signs Six-Year, $120M Deal With Bills

It’s not just quarterbacks who receive large, multi-year contracts in their 30s these days: defensive ends as well as linebackers do too.

It’s true: the 32-year-old Von Miller Thursday inked a six-year, $120 million deal ($51 million guaranteed) with the Buffalo Bills—the third team of his NFL career. The eight-time Pro Bowler was grappling with the decision to leave warm and sunny Los Angeles, where he just won a Super Bowl with the Rams, to go to cold and snowy Buffalo.

“I saw what makes Aaron Donald Aaron Donald, and it was hard to walk away from that,” Miller said. “The only way you can walk away from that is to walk into something special. And what they’re doing here is extremely special. (The Bills are) gonna win a Super Bowl with or without me. They’ve built an amazing team.”

He also entertained thoughts of returning to the Broncos.

“I wasn’t expecting it to be like that,” Miller said. “I was expecting you win the Super Bowl, you got your offers out here, where do you want to go, pick, go back to the Rams. But it was tough man, it came down to the very end.

“I feel like I let (the Rams) down. I feel like I’m breaking up with my girlfriend. That’s just me and the way I go about my business. But this was the one time in my life where I had to make a decision for me.”

“When I left Denver and I went to L.A, I said I’m not going back. I said I’m not leaving,” he added. “And it had to be something special. It had to be the Buffalo Bills. What they’ve created here—it had to be the Bills Mafia. This environment that they’ve created here, it [drew] me away from that. It’s not gonna be the weather. The weather is gonna be the weather. But what they’re doing inside this facility, what they’re doing in this community, what they’re doing on the football field and off the football field, man, I had to be a part of that.”

“This was an opportunity for us to get our hands on one in Von and it’s not every year you have a chance to get a player like this at that position in particular,” Bills coach Sean McDermott said. “McDermott said. “So, we were fortunate that the time was right for us and for him.”