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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Pro Bowl cornerback Christian Gonzalez and the New England Patriots have been engaged in negotiations on a long-term contract in recent months, and owner Robert Kraft shared general details of the team's offer.
"We love Christian Gonzalez. We love him as a player, as a person, and that's why we've made an offer to him to make him the highest-paid player to ever play that position in the NFL," Kraft said Saturday morning before the team's first practice of training camp. "And coincidentally, it is the highest contract in Patriots franchise history. So we're glad we drafted him, he's developed here, and we hope he'll be with us for a long time."