{"id":35115,"date":"2025-05-09T01:09:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T01:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/35115\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T01:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T01:09:17","slug":"cardinals-sign-4-nfl-draft-picks-to-rookie-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/35115\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals sign 4 NFL Draft picks to rookie contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Four of the Arizona Cardinals\u2019 seven 2025 NFL Draft picks <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Tdrake4sports\/status\/1920633465214521833\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">signed<\/a> their four-year rookie contracts on Thursday, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p>They include:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Pass rusher Jordan Burch (third round)<br \/>\u2013 Cornerback Denzel Burke (fifth round)<br \/>\u2013 Offensive lineman Hayden Conner (sixth round)<br \/>\u2013 Kitan Crawford (seventh round)<\/p>\n<p>The deals come a day prior to the start of Arizona\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nfl\/arizona-cardinals\/rookie-minicamp\/3583005\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">three-day rookie minicamp.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Burch, the No. 78 overall pick, registered career highs in sacks (8.5), tackles for loss (11) and passes defensed (six) in his final season at Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>Burke, the local kid who went No. 174 overall, attended both Brophy Prep and Saguaro High School before heading to Ohio State. He had 48 tackles, two interceptions and two passes defensed in his fourth and final season as a Buckeye.<\/p>\n<p>Conner was a late addition for the Cardinals after they swung a deal to get back into the sixth round. The No. 211 overall pick didn\u2019t miss a start in three seasons of work along Texas\u2019 interior.<\/p>\n<p>Crawford, who went No. 255 overall, made 76 tackles, two interceptions, seven passes defensed and a forced fumble across 13 games in his lone season at Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>Which Arizona Cardinals draft picks remain unsigned?<\/p>\n<p>With the four rookies putting pen to paper this week, that leaves three left to sign.<\/p>\n<p>That includes Arizona\u2019s top two picks Walter Nolen III (first round) and Will Johnson (second) along with Day 3 addition <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nfl\/arizona-cardinals\/cody-simon-contrib\/3583348\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cody Simon<\/a> (fourth round).<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tdrake4sports\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @Tdrake4sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AZSportsEmail-300x250-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four of the Arizona Cardinals\u2019 seven 2025 NFL Draft picks signed their four-year rookie contracts on Thursday, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,1632,2604,1327,7,1631,6,1630],"class_list":{"0":"post-35115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizona-sports-now-on-98-7-fm","11":"tag-arizonacardinals","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-home","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-phoenix-arizona-sports-news-phoenix-breaking-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114475208860410789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35115","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=35115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}