{"id":133941,"date":"2024-05-23T10:42:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T14:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=133941"},"modified":"2024-05-23T10:42:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T14:42:53","slug":"bucs-winfield-jr-manifested-becoming-highest-paid-defensive-back-i-put-the-work-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=133941","title":{"rendered":"Bucs Winfield, Jr. Manifested Becoming Highest-Paid Defensive Back: \u2018I Put The Work In\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_133926\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133926\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-133926\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ca-times.brightspotcdn-640x511.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ca-times.brightspotcdn-640x511.jpg 640w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ca-times.brightspotcdn-160x128.jpg 160w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ca-times.brightspotcdn-1024x818.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-133926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE &#8211; Tampa Bay Buccaneers safety Antoine Winfield Jr. (31) leaves the field following warmups before an NFL football game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Dec. 24, 2023, in Tampa, Fla. All-Pro safety Winfield has agreed to a four-year, $84 million contract with the Buccaneers that makes him the highest-paid defensive back in the NFL. The team announced an agreement Monday, May 13, 2024. (AP Photo\/Peter Joneleit, File)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Antoine Winfield, Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The NFL\u2019s highest-paid defensive back was all smiles and full of gratitude while discussing his historic deal for the first time onMonday afternoon.<br \/>\nTampa Bay Bucs star safety Antoine Winfield, Jr. is no stranger to success. Following his father\u2019s footsteps to the league, the 25- year-old said he\u2019s dreamed of playing professional football and to still be in Tampa \u2014 the only place he wanted to be \u2014 is a dream come true.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s been a dream ever since I was a young kid,\u201d Winfield, Jr. said, grinning ear-to-ear. \u201cAnd to still be here, in Tampa Bay\u2014the only place I really wanted to be at \u2014 it\u2019s a huge blessing. And I really appreciate everybody that\u2019s worked on the contract.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI also want to say thank you to all my teammates that I\u2019ve played with over the last four years and for, you know, making it possible for me to be here because you know, I\u2019m not the only one that\u2019s out in the field, out there playing,\u201dheaded.<br \/>\nThe Buccaneers and Winfield, Jr. agreed to the historic four year, $84.1 million deal on May 13, making it the \u201cfirst time in modern NFL history that a safety has set this mark.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antoine Winfield, Jr. The NFL\u2019s highest-paid defensive back was all smiles and full of gratitude while discussing his historic deal for the first time onMonday afternoon. Tampa Bay Bucs star safety Antoine Winfield, Jr. is no stranger to success. Following his father\u2019s footsteps to the league, the 25- year-old said he\u2019s dreamed of playing professional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133943,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133941\/revisions\/133943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}