7NEWS.com.au understands Brayden Maynard has extended his contract with Collingwood, a two-year deal that locks the defender in until 2022, worth around $400,000 a season plus incentives.

The 22-year-old has an existing contract until 2020, the new deal will take him through to the start of his restricted free agency.

Maynard has forged a permanent spot in the Pies line-up, playing 76 games for Collingwood in four seasons.

The half back flanker famously wasn’t awarded a free kick in the dying stages of the Pies 5 point grand final loss to West Coast.

Maynard is popular at Collingwood, good friends with emerging superstar Jordan De Goey, and Ben Crocker, in what’s affectionately being described as the Pies new ‘rat pack’.

Collingwood is expected to announce the deal in coming weeks.

Emerging superstar Jordan De Goey is mates with Maynard. Credit: AAP

Talks between ruck superstar Brodie Grundy and Collingwood have also started.

Grundy is one of the highest profile free agents at the end of next season. The Herald Sun reporting Grundy could get a 7-year deal to stay.