ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The Denver Broncos gave their longest-tenured player what he hoped for — the opportunity to stay with the team that drafted him.

Left tackle Garett Bolles, the Broncos’ first-round pick in the 2017 draft, has signed a four-year extension to stay in Denver, the team announced Thursday.

Full terms of the extension were not disclosed, but sources told ESPN that Bolles’ deal was worth a total of up to $82 million, with just over $40 million in guarantees.

In a post on and training video.

Bolles, the No. 20 pick in the 2017 draft, was the first tackle the Broncos had selected in the first round since Ryan Clady in 2008. The team has also not used a draft pick to select a tackle since Bolles was selected.

Bolles had signed a four-year, $68 million contract extension in 2020 and was poised to be an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season. The 32-year-old has been one of the team’s most consistent players throughout his career, rarely missing training and starting all 13 games this season.

Bolles, who is the league’s seventh-ranked tackle in pass block win rate (93.2%), has started at least 16 games in a season in four previous seasons and has missed more than three games in a season as recently as 2022, when he suffered a broken leg in the fifth game of the year.

Even Bolles himself expressed some uncertainty about his future in Denver earlier this season. He was in the final year of his contract, while the team had completed extensions with guard Quinn Meinerz, cornerback Pat Surtain II and linebacker Jonathon Cooper well before they reached free agency, and the Broncos also signed tackle Mike McGlinchey and guard Ben Powers to become highly qualified. Ending free agency deals in 2023.

Throughout his playing career, Bolles has repeatedly said that he hopes to remain a “Bronco for life” and that his family wants to stay in Denver.