Another layer was added to Matthew Judon’s mysterious contract situation Saturday, Kaley Brown of The Boston Globe reports.

The edge rusher has been fairly active on social media amid reports that he and the Patriots are “not close” to agreeing on a new contract.

Judon’s latest post on X seems to refute a report from Patriots insider Greg Bedard on his “Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast” that was released Saturday morning. One quote, in particular, stood out from Bedard spread on social media and appeared to catch the player’s attention.

“What I know is he may be playing nice publicly. And he has, he said all the right things. You wanna believe him, take him at his word? Go right ahead, I’m not going to stop you,” Bedard said of Judon and his current contract. “But what I can tell you is from the people that I’ve talked to, he is not going to play under his current contract. At least for the Patriots. I can’t talk about any place else. That’s my understanding. I don’t know exactly what’s been communicated to the team, but that’s my understanding.”

A few hours after the episode was posted, Judon took to X to seemingly clear the air about Bedard’s comments.

“Before yall get on my I [expletive] say that,” he posted. “At all don’t let them make me the villain.”

Judon is set to become a free agent after this season as he enters the final year of his four-year, $54.5 million contract. Last summer, he and New England agreed to increase his guaranteed money for the 2023-24 season from $2 million to $14 million. However, it remains clear that as of now, Judon would at least prefer to sign a new deal ahead of the season.

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