According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, former Husky tight end Drew Sample has agreed to a multi-year contract extension with the Cincinnati Bengals. The five-year veteran is set to sign a three-year extension worth $10.5 million.
In five seasons with the Bengals, the team that drafted him in the second round (52nd overall) in the 2019 NFL Draft, Sample has played in 61 games and caught 80 passes on 103 targets for 621 yards and three touchdowns.
This past season, Sample emerged as the Bengals’ top tight end, starting eight of the team’s final 10 games and finishing with 22 receptions for 163 yards and two touchdowns. Nine of his receptions went for first downs
Sample was a two-year starter for the Huskies during his four years on campus after signing with the program in 2015 after a solid prep career at Newport High School in Bellevue. He finished his Husky career with 46 receptions for 487 yards and five touchdowns.
He originally committed to Chris Petersen when he was at Boise State, but once he decided to become the new head coach at Washington, he was able to swing Sample to Montlake.
Today marks the beginning of Free Agency in the NFL calendar and should be busy for several Huskies, including Sample’s former Husky and current Bengals teammate, QB Jake Browning, who is a free agent after starting the final seven games of the season for Cincinnati after starter Joe Burrow went down with a season-ending injury.
