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Buccaneers make safety Antoine Winfield Jr. NFL's highest-paid DB

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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Antoine Winfield Jr. have reached agreement on a four-year, $84.1 million deal, agent David Mulugheta told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Monday.

The deal makes Winfield the highest-paid defensive back in NFL history -- the first time in modern NFL history that a safety has set this mark.

Winfield had received the franchise tag from the Buccaneers in March.