The Patriots are keeping their captain for another couple years.

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The Pats and center David Andrews agreed to a 1-year contract extension Thursday that will run through the 2025 season, a source confirmed to the Herald. The contract carries a base value of $12 million over the next two seasons, including $8 million guaranteed with a maximum total value of $13 million. Andrews, 31, is the team’s longest-tenured player on offense and a seven-time captain.

Andrews weighed his future in the league this past offseason, following a difficult 4-13 campaign. He elected to return for 2024, which had been a contract year prior to Thursday’s new deal. Andrews explained the decision to continue playing last week.

“(It’s) just making sure I can do all the things I need to do to prepare and be ready to go on Sunday,” he said. “I took some time and got away and spent some time with my family, much needed. That desire was still down in there, to wanna get up and go train and do all the things I need to do to take care of myself.”

Long snapper Joe Cardona is the only current player who’s been with the organization longer than Andrews. Cardona was a fifth-round draft pick in 2015, when Andrews signed with the team as an undrafted free agent out of Georgia.

Patriots quarterback Jacoby Brissett, who rejoined the team this offseason after the team drafted him in 2016, described Andrews as a pillar of the organization.

“Now, he’s like a staple in the Patriot Way,” Brissett said Thursday. “He’s somebody when I think of the culture, I think he is that. Somebody that’s a worker, a guy that’s fought through his career to get to where he is now. And I think a lot of our players on our team can look up to him.”