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Patriots Reportedly Reward Veteran Defender With Late-Season Bonus

The Patriots did one of their longest-tenured players a solid on Saturday.

Ahead of Sunday’s season finale against the New York Jets at Gillette Stadium, New England converted a $500,000 incentive in defensive tackle Lawrence Guy’s contract to a guaranteed bonus, according to a report from ESPN’s Field Yates.

“Patriots DT Lawrence Guy has an incentive worth $500K for playing 45% of the snaps this season; he is currently at 45.57%,” Yates wrote on the X platform. “The team removed the incentive and instead converted it into a bonus, guaranteeing Guy that money and preventing a scenario where he missed out on the money by just a few snaps.