When the Buffalo Bills signed defensive tackle Ed Oliver to a four year, 68-million extension on June 3, it wasn’t a move met with universal praise. While his lingering ankle injury was a contributing factor to a 2022 season that didn’t meet the expectations some would have of a former top-ten pick, Ryan O’Halloran of The Buffalo News spoke for many when he called the extension’s timing a “head-scratcher.” Oliver himself recognized some of the backlash, saying he wanted to “shut everybody up who said (he) was overpaid.”
So far in 2023, Oliver has lived up to the contract.