{"id":34828,"date":"2025-05-08T22:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T22:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/34828\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T22:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T22:34:10","slug":"raiders-lock-in-sixth-round-dt-jj-pegues-to-a-four-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/34828\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders lock in sixth round DT JJ Pegues to a four-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/las-vegas-raiders\/341\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Raiders;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Raiders<\/a> took care of some more of the business of getting their rookie draft class under contract. Which is important considering they take to the field for rookie minicamp Friday. The latest is sixth round DT JJ Pegues, who sligns his four-year rookie deal.<\/p>\n<p>Pegues was selected at 180 overall early in the sixth round out of <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/ole-miss-rebels\/3482\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ole Miss;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ole Miss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>JJ Pegues Raiders contract<\/p>\n<p>Pegues signs a fully guaranteed four-year, $4.47 million deal with a $267K signing bonus.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He will make $906,785 this season which falls below the top 15 and thus will not count against the 2025 salary cap<\/p>\n<p>The 6-2, 309-pounder spent two seasons at Auburn (2020-21) before transferring to Ole Miss for the final three seasons of his college career (2022-24), appearing in 62 career games with 25 starts and totaling 126 tackles (62 solo), 28.5 tackles for loss, 10 sacks, six passes defensed and one fumble recovery.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, he was named All-SEC Third Team after playing in 13 games with 11 starts and recording 42 tackles (18), 13.5 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, one fumble recovery and one pass defensed.<\/p>\n<p>Raiders DT depth chart<\/p>\n<p>Starters: Christian Wilkins, Adam Butler<\/p>\n<p>Reserves: Janah Laulu, Zach Carter, Tonka Hemingway, JJ Pegues, Matthew Butler<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Raiders Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/raiderswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/raiders\/2025\/05\/08\/raiders-sign-sixth-round-dt-jj-pegues-four-year-contract\/83522166007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Raiders lock in sixth round DT JJ Pegues to a four-year deal;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Raiders lock in sixth round DT JJ Pegues to a four-year deal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday the Raiders took care of some more of the business of getting their rookie draft class under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[1521,7,7041,1744,393,2455,2454,6,899,11315,525,2781],"class_list":{"0":"post-34828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-christian-wilkins","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jj-pegues","11":"tag-las-vegas","12":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","13":"tag-lasvegas","14":"tag-lasvegasraiders","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-ole-miss","17":"tag-pegues","18":"tag-raiders","19":"tag-tonka-hemingway"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114474599461931644","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34828","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=34828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}