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Trent Williams Cashes In Again With a $50 Million Extension in San Francisco

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November 11, 2026

Trent Williams on the field. Photo by Keith Allison, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Most offensive linemen never see one contract like this. Trent Williams keeps signing them. The San Francisco 49ers left tackle has agreed to a two year, $50 million contract extension that ties him to the team through the 2027 season, his agency Elite Loyalty Sports announced on Monday. It is the latest example of how the very top of the NFL pay scale now reaches well beyond the quarterback position.

The structure of the deal is what stands out. Williams receives $37 million fully guaranteed, including a $22 million signing bonus, according to the agency announcement. General manager John Lynch confirmed the agreement for the 49ers. Williams had been playing on a contract with no guaranteed money left, and the new deal replaces that uncertainty with two more secured seasons protecting the blind side in San Francisco.

The career numbers put Williams in rare company. With this extension, his agency said, he will become the first player at a position other than quarterback to surpass $400 million in career earnings, along with $225 million in guarantees. Those are figures once reserved for franchise passers, and they underline how the market values an elite left tackle: the player who keeps the most expensive asset on the roster upright.

For the 49ers, the business logic is straightforward. Guaranteed money at tackle is cheaper than the cost of a broken offense, and Williams remains the anchor of their line. For Williams, the extension rewards a long run of top level play and locks in security deep into the later years of his career. The deal also resets the reference point for every veteran lineman who comes to the table next, because agents around the league now have a $50 million extension, signed this week, to point to in their own negotiations.

Paramount Posts Its First Numbers After the $110 Billion Warner Bros. Deal

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November 11, 2026

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The Melrose Gate at Paramount Pictures in Hollywood. Photo by Coolcaesar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Paramount has given Wall Street its first look at life after the biggest merger in entertainment. In its third quarter earnings report on Monday, November 9, the first since closing the $110 billion combination with Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount reported a profit of $73 million on revenue of $7 billion, as growth in streaming and the studio business offset continued declines in traditional television.

The streaming numbers carry the report. Paramount+ revenue grew 21 percent to $2.13 billion, and the service added 600,000 subscribers in the quarter to reach 82.2 million. Counted together, Paramount+, HBO and HBO Max now reach 203 million subscribers worldwide. The direct to consumer business as a whole posted a profit of $225 million, with revenue up 11 percent to $2.5 billion. The studio segment was the other bright spot, with profit of $129 million and revenue up 23 percent to $1.5 billion, helped by licensing and content produced for third parties.

The merger math is where the pressure sits. Skydance shared plans to generate at least $6 billion in cost savings across areas including real estate, labor, technology, marketing and procurement. Because the Warner Bros. Discovery deal did not close until the fourth quarter, its results were not consolidated into this report, so the combined company’s real baseline arrives next quarter.

The product roadmap is already set. HBO Max and Paramount+ will launch as a bundle in early 2027 and will be merged onto the same technology backend within the first year after closing. Starting in the fourth quarter, the company will also stop disclosing subscriber numbers on a quarterly basis, a change that shifts attention from subscriber counts to revenue and profit per user.

Paramount said it remains on track for the high end of its 2026 profitability forecast of $3.9 billion. The next report, with Warner Bros. Discovery fully inside the numbers, is the one that shows whether the merger math works.