Maddux Trujillo

Current Contract

Contract Value Index (CVI)

Earning a D Contract Value Index, Maddux Trujillo's 2-year pact reflects how Buffalo valued the position market for a rookie kicker depth piece. With a 2025 season that saw him appear in just two games and saddled with an F performance grade, Trujillo has delivered minimal counting tape to justify even a modest salary at $967.5K AAV—a below-average rate for any specialist role, let alone a backup. At 23 years old in his rookie season, he's operating exactly where you'd expect a depth kicker to live: invisible until injury forces the issue. The Bills' recent moves—signings across the wide receiver and linebacker rooms, coupled with multiple roster cuts—signal that Buffalo's investment energy is planted elsewhere, and the institutional indifference baked into the media narrative around his situation says everything: Trujillo isn't criticized for failure; he's simply forgotten, a depth option whose contract carries minimal dead-cap consequence if he doesn't pan out. The two-year term provides Buffalo flexibility to evaluate him through the 2027 offseason without long-term commitment, but realistically, his CVI grade reflects the hard truth that a rookie backup kicker with limited reps and middling production carries little margin for error in a position market that rarely justifies second-round consideration.

Contracts in the Same Value Band

Other same-position deals the Contract Value Index also places in the D band — a quick read on where Maddux's contract sits relative to comparable money.

Performance Analysis

Stacked against the PK field, Maddux Trujillo grades out at a F performance level for Buffalo. The 23-year-old is in his rookie season and has appeared in just two games during the 2025 season, which means he's had minimal opportunity to demonstrate NFL-caliber consistency at the position. Without the high-leverage moments that define a kicker's season—field goals attempted, extra points made, long-distance conversions—there's simply not enough sample size to grade anything beyond a replacement-level floor. His role remains strictly as depth behind starter Tyler Bass, and the Bills' recent offseason activity spotlighting signings at linebacker, tight end, and wide receiver makes clear the front office is investing elsewhere on the roster. The media narrative around Trujillo is one of quiet irrelevance rather than active criticism; he's a depth piece on a $1.0M contract whose public profile remains essentially nonexistent. Until an injury to Bass or a high-pressure situation forces Trujillo into meaningful playing time, he'll remain a nameless reserve—a far cry from the veteran specialists who anchor a contending team's special teams unit.

How Maddux Compares at the Position

Maddux Trujillo ranks 38th of 39 graded pks by performance. That slots Maddux between Jake Moody (D) just ahead and Lenny Krieg (F) just behind.

Fan Sentiment

Maddux Trujillo carries a C- sentiment grade right now, with the conversation around his Pro Bowl-caliber moments shaping the narrative. The reality is far less dramatic: Trujillo exists almost entirely in the margins of Buffalo's media ecosystem, a backup kicker whose anonymity is less a referendum on performance failure and more a reflection of how thoroughly NFL backup specialists vanish from public consciousness unless forced into the spotlight. His 2025 season saw him appear in just two games, leaving virtually no tape for fans or analysts to form strong opinions around, and the Bills' recent offensive and defensive acquisitions—Mac Dalena at wide receiver, Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles and Kaleb Elarms-Orr at linebacker, among others—signal that Buffalo's roster focus is planted firmly elsewhere. The media narrative around his situation isn't one of criticism or concern; it's one of institutional indifference, with coverage centered squarely on Tyler Bass as the reliable starter rather than on Trujillo's shortcomings as a depth option. Barring an injury to Bass or a critical kick moment that forces Trujillo into the conversation, his sentiment grade will remain exactly where it sits: quietly unremarkable, driven by irrelevance rather than failure.