MIAMI -- The Dolphins and cornerback Xavien Howard agreed to a five-year contract, his agent David Canter announced.
The deal is worth $50.6 million in new money and gives Howard the most guaranteed money for a cornerback in NFL history.
Howard had three years and $39 million remaining on the five-year, $75 million contract he signed in 2020 but had grown discontent with the deal entering the 2021 season. The 2016 second-round pick requested a trade in July, saying he didn't feel "valued or respected" by the organization that drafted him.
His request came during an offseason in which Miami signed cornerback Byron Jones to a five-year $82.