{"id":27039,"date":"2025-05-06T00:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T00:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/27039\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T00:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T00:46:09","slug":"nfl-draft-pick-signings-5-5-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/27039\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Draft Pick Signings: 5\/5\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s draft pick signings:<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City Chiefs<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballrumors.com\/2025\/05\/chiefs-sign-first-round-t-josh-simmons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">After quickly signing<\/a> OT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/josh-simmons-1.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-05_cfb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Josh Simmons<\/a> to his first-round rookie contract, the Chiefs are now pivoting to the other end of their draft board, agreeing to contracts with their final two selections from the 2025 draft.<\/p>\n<p>Bassa was a four-year starter at Oregon, including a 2023 campaign where he earned second-team All-Pac-12 honors after finishing with 71 tackles. His 54 tackles in 2024 represented his lowest total since his freshman year, but that likely didn\u2019t do much to hurt his draft stock.<\/p>\n<p>Smith served as mostly a backup during his three seasons at Miami, but he had a breakout showing after transferring to SMU for the 2024 campaign. The RB finished this past year with 1,659 yards from scrimmage and 18 touchdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s draft pick signings: Kansas City Chiefs After quickly signing OT Josh Simmons to his first-round rookie contract,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3285,7,2774,110,6,15,3571],"class_list":{"0":"post-27039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-brashard-smith","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jeffrey-bassa","11":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-nfl-draft","14":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114458131424966300","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27039","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=27039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}