\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe New Orleans Saints and rookie quarterback Tyler Shough have reportedly agreed to a unique, fully guaranteed contract.Adam Schefter with ESPN broke the news via social media. Many 2025 second-round draft picks had been holding out this offseason, hoping to get fully-guaranteed deals, and Shough is the latest to get his.The deal will reportedly pay him $10.795 over the life of the 4-year contract. The contract reportedly features a roster bonus, which no other non-1st round pick has, that pays him a majority of his salary during the first week of training camp. New Orleans took the 6-foot-5, 219-pound Shough with the 40th overall pick (2nd round) in the 2025 NFL Draft.\u201cMy goal is to come in there and compete and do everything I can to make the team better,\u201d Shough said. \u201cI\u2019m just fired up for the opportunity.\u201d Shough was pleased his NFL career would begin under the tutelage of first-year Saints coach Kellen Moore, a former college QB at Boise State and a former offensive coordinator with Dallas, the Los Angeles Chargers and Super Bowl champion Philadelphia last season.New Orleans Saints rookie quarterback Tyler Shough is fired up to get to the Crescent City to start helping the Black & Gold get back to their winning ways.Shough posted on his Instagram account: God\u2019s timing. If it was easy, everyone would do it. New Orleans you will get everything out of me. I will die on that field for y\u2019all. WHO DATNew Orleans Saints first-year coach Kellen Moore\u2019s own experience tells him that NFL teams can win without an accomplished quarterback.Moore was playing for Dallas when the Cowboys selected Dak Prescott in the fourth round of the 2016 draft.Prescott won the starting job as a rookie and went 13-3, passing for 23 touchdowns while throwing just four interceptions.And Moore doesn\u2019t hesitate to mention that when asked about the fact that the four QBs on the Saints roster right now have a combined seven NFL starts \u2014 and no wins \u2014 among them.\u201cIt\u2019s all about opportunities,\u201d Moore said.Prescott \u201chopped in there and played great and certainly there\u2019s a lot of other quarterbacks through the history of this game who\u2019ve done it in a similar fashion,\u201d Moore continued. \u201cSo, we feel like we\u2019ve got some young guys who are ready to roll.\u201dRookie quarterback Tyler Shough became the second draft choice of the Moore era when the Saints selected him early in the second round last month. That made Shough the highest QB picked by the Saints since they took Archie Manning second overall in 1971.\u201cA lot of things you can\u2019t control,\u201d Shough said Thursday after the Saints wrapped up their third voluntary offseason practice. \u201cBut you can control your preparation, your attitude, your effort \u2014 and that\u2019s one thing I\u2019m going to do.\u201dFor now, Shough is a front-runner to be New Orleans\u2019 starter in Week 1, along with second-year pro Spencer Rattler, a 2024 fifth-rounder, who started six games \u2014 all losses \u2014 as a rookie last season while Derek Carr \u2014 who unexpectedly retired this month \u2014 was injured.Shough, who turns 26 on Sept. 28, spent seven seasons with three college programs before turning pro, and his relative maturity has been evident to Moore.\u201cHe\u2019s a really, really prepared quarterback,\u201d Moore said. \u201cHe can handle NFL volume. He\u2019s handled the playbook tremendously.\u201dRattler said he didn\u2019t envision entering his second NFL season as the most experienced QB on New Orleans\u2019 roster, but was grateful for the opportunities he was given last season, even as the Saints struggled to a 5-12 record.\u201cIt helps a lot just with the speed of everything, understanding what you\u2019re going to see week in and week out,\u201d Rattler said.\u201cYou can\u2019t put too much pressure on yourself,\u201d Rattler added. \u201cIt\u2019s Year 2 \u2014 a great opportunity ahead of me.\u201dJake Haener, a 2023 fourth-round pick out of Fresno State, made his lone start last season and aims to be in the mix after he returns from a recent oblique injury that could sideline him for several weeks.\u201cI\u2019m not dumb. Everybody\u2019s probably counting me as the least likely factor to have any success,\u201d Haener said. \u201cSo I\u2019m worried about what I can control at all times and nothing else. … I\u2019ve always been the underdog.\u201dNew Orleans also signed undrafted rookie Hunter Dekkers after offering the former Iowa State lefty a rookie camp tryout.\u201cHe has some tremendous ability,\u201d Moore said.While it\u2019s unusual for an NFL team to open a season without any QBs who\u2019ve won an NFL game, it\u2019s not rare.That was the case when Green Bay went with rookies Jordan Love and Sean Clifford in 2023. Same with Cincinnati in 2020, Joe Burrow\u2019s rookie season. Both clubs were playoff bound within two seasons.On the flip side, the New York Jets have largely struggled since opening 2021 with Zach Wilson and Mike White as their active QBs.\u201cThere\u2019s been lots of quarterback rooms around the league over the years where they\u2019ve got a young group and they\u2019ve got to develop them,\u201d Saints general manager Mickey Loomis said. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s ideal, but that\u2019s the hand we\u2019ve been dealt.\u201dLoomis and Moore wouldn\u2019t rule out adding a veteran QB under the right circumstances, but haven\u2019t listed that as a priority.Loomis also dismissed the notion that Saints veterans might question the club\u2019s urgency to win if they don\u2019t pick up a more proven QB.\u201cI haven\u2019t heard that,\u201d Loomis said, but added he was confident that Moore, offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier and QBs coach Scott Tolzien \u2014 all former NFL QBs themselves \u2014 would have whoever wins the job well prepared.Moore \u201cunderstands the position,\u201d Loomis emphasized. \u201cHe understands what he needs to ask from these guys at this stage of their career.\u201dVeteran tight end Foster Moreau said experienced players know better than to make too many assumptions about unproven teammates at any position.\u201cThese are the cards that we were dealt,\u201d Moreau said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to see what our cards are really worth. 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New Orleans Saints and QB Tyler Shough reached agreement today on a fully-guaranteed $10.795 contract, per @ErikBurkhardt<\/a> of @RocNationSports<\/a>.<\/p>\n At pick No. 40, Shough is the last player selected in the 2025 draft to secure a fully-guaranteed deal. <\/p>\n The contract also includes\u2026<\/p>\n \u2014 Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) July 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n Many 2025 second-round draft picks had been holding out this offseason, hoping to get fully-guaranteed deals, and Shough is the latest to get his.<\/p>\n The deal will reportedly pay him $10.795 over the life of the 4-year contract. <\/p>\n \n\tThis content is imported from Twitter. Saints and QB Tyler Shough agreed to a fully-guaranteed deal today \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n It features a Roster Bonus, which no other non-1st round pick has, that pays him a majority of his salary during the first week of training camp \ud83d\udcb0 pic.twitter.com\/4DAQmATZL6<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 DraftKings (@DraftKings) July 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n The contract reportedly features a roster bonus, which no other non-1st round pick has, that pays him a majority of his salary during the first week of training camp. <\/p>\n New Orleans took the 6-foot-5, 219-pound Shough with the 40th overall pick (2nd round) in the 2025 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n \u201cMy goal is to come in there and compete and do everything I can to make the team better,\u201d Shough said. \u201cI\u2019m just fired up for the opportunity.\u201d <\/p>\n Shough was pleased his NFL career would begin under the tutelage of first-year Saints coach Kellen Moore, a former college QB at Boise State and a former offensive coordinator with Dallas, the Los Angeles Chargers and Super Bowl champion Philadelphia last season.<\/p>\n New Orleans Saints rookie quarterback Tyler Shough is fired up to get to the Crescent City to start helping the Black & Gold get back to their winning ways.<\/p>\n Shough posted on his Instagram account: <\/p>\n God\u2019s timing. If it was easy, everyone would do it. New Orleans you will get everything out of me. I will die on that field for y\u2019all. WHO DAT<\/p>\n New Orleans Saints first-year coach Kellen Moore\u2019s own experience tells him that NFL teams can win without an accomplished quarterback.<\/p>\n Moore was playing for Dallas when the Cowboys selected Dak Prescott in the fourth round of the 2016 draft.<\/p>\n Prescott won the starting job as a rookie and went 13-3, passing for 23 touchdowns while throwing just four interceptions.<\/p>\n And Moore doesn\u2019t hesitate to mention that when asked about the fact that the four QBs on the Saints roster right now have a combined seven NFL starts \u2014 and no wins \u2014 among them.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s all about opportunities,\u201d Moore said.<\/p>\n Prescott \u201chopped in there and played great and certainly there\u2019s a lot of other quarterbacks through the history of this game who\u2019ve done it in a similar fashion,\u201d Moore continued. \u201cSo, we feel like we\u2019ve got some young guys who are ready to roll.\u201d<\/p>\n
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