{"id":148576,"date":"2025-06-21T23:11:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T23:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/148576\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T23:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T23:11:19","slug":"patriots-sign-fourth-round-safety-craig-woodson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/148576\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots Sign Fourth-Round Safety Craig Woodson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New England Patriots have officially signed fourth-round draft pick safety Craig Woodson to his rookie contract, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patriots.com\/news\/patriots-sign-fourth-round-draft-pick-s-craig-woodson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the team announced on Friday<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This now leaves second-round running back TreVeyon Henderson as the only 2025 draft pick not to sign.<\/p>\n<p>A 6-foot, 200-pound safety out of California, Woodson played in 46 games with 40 starts across his college career and was a contributor on special teams. This past season, he finished with\u00a070 tackles, 2.5 TFLs, two INTs and seven PBUs across 13 games.<\/p>\n<p>And he\u2019s made a strong impression on one veteran safety on the Patriots roster. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like him \u2014 smart, savvy,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/05\/under-the-radar-rookie-already-impressing-patriots-veteran\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jabrill Peppers told reporters in May<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s done a great job soaking up what the coaches want him to do, different techniques. College ball is a little different than in the league, especially in the Pac-12. So, you know, he\u2019s definitely done a good job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>NBC Sports Boston\u2019s Phil Perry also heard good things following rookie minicamp.<\/p>\n<p>The name that came back to me was Will Campbell,\u201d Perry said on the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/nfl\/new-england-patriots\/craig-woodson-otas-2025-nfl-draft-rookie-class\/711009\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Next Pats Podcast<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0\u201cThey liked what they saw, impressive physically and in terms of his leadership \u2014 everything they wanted in that period. But the other name was Craig Woodson. For Woodson to be mentioned was noteworthy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Right after he was drafted, he sent a clear message to Patriots fans, that proves he\u2019s ready to go. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything I can\u2019t do on the field,\u201d Woodson said. \u201cI\u2019m ready to show that to Pats Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>So with this contract issue now out of the way, it\u2019s time to get started. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New England Patriots have officially signed fourth-round draft pick safety Craig Woodson to his rookie contract, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[1846,7,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-148576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-craig-woodson","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-new-england","11":"tag-new-england-patriots","12":"tag-newengland","13":"tag-newenglandpatriots","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114723886492508948","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148576","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=148576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}