{"id":143939,"date":"2025-06-20T03:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T03:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/143939\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T03:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T03:53:10","slug":"saints-tyler-shough-wants-fully-guaranteed-deal-delaying-second-round-pick-signings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/143939\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints’ Tyler Shough Wants Fully-Guaranteed Deal, Delaying Second Round Pick Signings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several second-round picks from the 2025 NFL Draft remain unsigned as they seek fully guaranteed rookie contracts, according to Joel Corry of CBS Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Back in May, the Texans gave No. 34 pick Jayden Higgins<\/a> a fully guaranteed deal<\/a>, the first of its kind for a second-round pick. In past years, the first few picks of the second round have received three years of fully-guaranteed money with increasing fourth-year guarantees after each draft. The Texans\u2019 move put pressure on the Browns to do the same with No. 33 pick Carson Schwesinger<\/a>, which they did the next day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With this new precedent, Saints second-round quarterback Tyler Shough<\/a>\u00a0is demanding a fully-guaranteed rookie contract of his own, per Corry. That would be a sizable jump from 2024 No. 40 pick Cooper DeJean<\/a>, who only received partial guarantees in his third year and none in his fourth, per OverTheCap<\/a>.\u00a0Shough was taken with pick No. 40, six spots after Higgins, but the recent retirement of<\/a> Derek Carr<\/a>\u00a0has positioned him as the Saints\u2019 starting quarterback<\/a>, giving him some extra leverage in negotiations.<\/p>\n

Knowing that, the players drafted between Higgins and Shough are waiting to sign with their teams. If Shough can get a fully guaranteed contract from the Saints, every player selected before him will have an argument to receive the same deal. However, their teams will argue that Shough\u2019s situation \u2013 and quarterbacks in general \u2013 are unique when it comes to contract negotiations.<\/p>\n

Players selected in the early 40s will also be \u201choping to benefit from a trickle-down effect\u201d from Shough\u2019s negotiations, according to Corry. If he extracts a fully guaranteed deal, the next few picks will push for their first three years to be fully guaranteed and potentially ask for guarantees in the fourth year as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several second-round picks from the 2025 NFL Draft remain unsigned as they seek fully guaranteed rookie contracts, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[80,7,55,6,15,283],"class_list":{"0":"post-143939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-new-orleans-saints","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-nfl-draft","13":"tag-tyler-shough"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114713670721292959","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}