A second high-profile D-line cap casualty is heading to Buffalo. After agreeing to phrases with Joey Bosa on Tuesday night, the Payments have reached a Wednesday morning settlement with Larry Ogunjobi.
The latest Steelers launch will be a part of the Payments on a one-year, $8.3M deal, NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport reports. Incentives may bump the quantity to $10M for Ogunjobi, who spent the previous three seasons with the Steelers.
This will be Ogunjobi’s first trip outside the AFC North. The eight-year veteran has played for the Browns, Bengals and Steelers, becoming a quality interior pass rusher. The 108-game career starter will join a Bills team that features Ed Oliver and DaQuan Jones at D-tackle. Quinton Jefferson and Jordan Phillips, every acquired in-season final yr, are free brokers.
Ogunjobi’s sack numbers have tailed off lately, however he does have three seasons with not less than 5.5. These got here with Cleveland and Cincinnati. With Pittsburgh, Ogunjobi tallied six sacks in three mixed seasons. The Steelers did see the Cameron Heyward sidekick publish 15 tackles for loss and 26 QB hits in that span, one which included the Steelers giving him a three-year, $40.5M contract. Ogunjobi turned a launch candidate, nevertheless, and Pittsburgh cut bait with a season left on the contract.
Working as a starter for the Bengals staff that finally ventured to Tremendous Bowl LVI, Ogunjobi suffered a season-ending foot damage in the course of the staff’s wild-card win. An ensuing bodily led the Bears to nix a take care of the previous Browns third-rounder the next March, as Ogunjobi landed in Pittsburgh on a one-year, $8M deal. He performed effectively sufficient to command the above-referenced Steelers extension, and sufficient of a market shaped over the previous two days to carry the Payments previous $8M.
Enjoying on an extension he signed in 2023, Oliver operates as Buffalo’s prime inside cross rusher. The previous first-round decide posted a career-high 9.5 sacks in 2023 and has mixed to ship 29 QB hits over the previous two seasons. Jones, conversely, is the Payments’ prime inside run stuffer. It will stand to purpose Ogunjobi will play behind this duo as a high-end reserve choice. That is actually lots to pay such a participant, pointing to Payments confidence Ogunjobi can excel as a regularly used second-stringer.
Ogunjobi’s career-high sack whole (seven) got here with the Bengals in 2021, and he mixed for 20 TFLs between the 2018 and ’19 seasons as a Brown. Chosen in the identical draft as Cleveland added Myles Garrett, Ogunjobi has by no means been a sophisticated metrics darling. However the 48.3 total grade he obtained from Professional Soccer Focus for his 2024 work was particularly low and positioned him because the 94th-best inside DL out of 118 qualifiers. Nonetheless, the Payments will guess he has high quality soccer left.
