Bengals Sign DT Geno Atkins To Four-Year, $65.3M Extension

The Cincinnati Bengals have agreed to a four-year extension with DT Geno Atkins on Tuesday, according to his agency.

• Ian Rapoport reports that Atkins receives a four-year, $65.3 million extension with $37.5 million paid out in the first two years of the agreement and $16.3 million per year.

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The Bengals have reportedly been focused on signing Atkins and DE Carlos Dunlap to lucrative extensions and it appears as though they were able to get Atkins’ new deal before the start of the regular season.

Atkins, 30, is a former fourth-round pick of the Bengals back in 2010. He’s currently in the final year of his six-year, $56.423 million contract that included $31 million guaranteed and was set to make a base salary of $9.25 million for the 2018 season.

In 2017, Atkins appeared in all 16 games for the Bengals and recorded 47 tackles and nine sacks. Pro Football Focus had him rated as the No. 2 interior defender out of 122 qualifying players.

We had him featured in our Top 25 – 2019 NFL Free Agents list.