{"id":165669,"date":"2025-06-28T16:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T16:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/165669\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T16:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T16:43:10","slug":"details-on-why-eagles-drew-mukuba-and-29-other-2nd-round-picks-havent-signed-rookie-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/165669\/","title":{"rendered":"Details on why Eagles Drew Mukuba and 29 other 2nd-round picks haven’t signed rookie deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2025 NFL draft concluded over six days ago, and while most of the first-round picks and late-round picks have signed, the thirty-second-round picks are still unsigned, with less than a month to go before training camps kick off around the league.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia selected playmaking safety Andrew Mukuba with the 64th pick,<\/a> and Adam Schefter reports that the former Texas star and 29 other second-round picks are haggling over guaranteed money on the standard four-year deal.<\/p>\n

First-round picks usually have guaranteed four-year deals with a potential fifth-year option, but up until this past April, fully guaranteed contracts weren’t the norm for second-round picks. That all changed when the Texans<\/a> gave Jayden Higgins, the 34th overall pick,\u00a0the first fully guaranteed contract ever<\/a>\u00a0for a second-round pick on May 8. On May 9, the Browns<\/a> followed suit, offering Carson Schwesinger, the 33rd overall pick in the second round,\u00a0a fully guaranteed contract as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Schefter reports that since then, no second-round picks have signed.<\/p>\n

NFL teams have no problem colluding against guaranteed contracts<\/a>, and Mukuba could miss time entering training camp if a deal isn’t reached.<\/p>\n

It’s a touchy scenario for Philadelphia, which traded C.J. Gardner-Johnson to the Texans, and could benefit from having a more athletic clone step into his shoes. Over his final 26 games in college, Mukuba recorded 18 pass breakups and committed zero penalties. Mukuba allowed just 74 yards and a 12.1 passer rating on 401 coverage snaps last season, per PFF.<\/p>\n

The Austin, Texas native, and Longhorns star played one year at Texas after spending three seasons at Clemson.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Eagles Wire: Andrew Mukuba is one of 30 second-round picks still unsigned<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 NFL draft concluded over six days ago, and while most of the first-round picks and late-round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[4191,913,1172,571,85,25,7,569,1057,881,6,242,109,2476],"class_list":{"0":"post-165669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-adam-schefter","9":"tag-andrew-mukuba","10":"tag-c-j-gardner-johnson","11":"tag-carson-schwesinger","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-eagles","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-jayden-higgins","16":"tag-longhorns","17":"tag-mukuba","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-philadelphia","20":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","21":"tag-philadelphiaeagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165669","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=165669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}