{"id":45874,"date":"2025-05-13T04:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T04:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/45874\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T04:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T04:21:08","slug":"former-alabama-tight-end-robbie-ouzts-signs-his-first-nfl-contract-with-seattle-seahawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/45874\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Alabama tight end Robbie Ouzts signs his first NFL contract with Seattle Seahawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7UVCH5G2IJAI5PRWBJHUWL2IMA\">Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/alabamafootball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/alabamafootball\/\">Alabama<\/a> tight end Robbie Ouzts has signed his first NFL contract, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seahawks.com\/news\/seahawks-sign-8-of-11-2025-draft-picks-including-first-round-pick-grey-zabel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.seahawks.com\/news\/seahawks-sign-8-of-11-2025-draft-picks-including-first-round-pick-grey-zabel\"> Seattle Seahawks announced<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XR5NKTIOGFBQ5OBOI53BV2S7UY\">The NFL team reported eight of its 11 selections in the 2025 NFL Draft signed contracts on Monday. Among the players who did not sign was former Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NRWPBXUM75B5PMYEXRZ5WTIE5M\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/sports\/2025\/04\/jalen-milroe-sounds-warning-for-teams-that-bypassed-him-in-the-nfl-draft.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/sports\/2025\/04\/jalen-milroe-sounds-warning-for-teams-that-bypassed-him-in-the-nfl-draft.html\">The Seahawks chose <\/a>Milroe in the third round on April 25. The next day and 82 picks later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/alabamafootball\/2025\/04\/seattle-seahawks-select-robbie-ouzts-in-2025-nfl-draft.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/alabamafootball\/2025\/04\/seattle-seahawks-select-robbie-ouzts-in-2025-nfl-draft.html\">Seattle selected <\/a>Ouzts in the fifth round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UYS3R4TBCVGMRDQJ6AZHU5TOLY\">The Seahawks drafted Ouzts with plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/sports\/2025\/04\/alabama-tight-end-with-his-moustache-heads-for-a-new-position-with-seattle-seahawks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/sports\/2025\/04\/alabama-tight-end-with-his-moustache-heads-for-a-new-position-with-seattle-seahawks.html\">convert him into a fullback<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"X57DDJC4UJGEVCYLIYKMMEUJFA\">As the 175th pick in the 90th NFL Draft, Ouzts signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nfl\/draft\/_\/year\/2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nfl\/draft\/_\/year\/2025\">four-year, $4.52 million contract<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VHUBSPPP5JAZHO3ELIXOPADHNM\">FOR MORE OF AL.COM\u2019S COVERAGE OF THE NFL, GO TO OUR <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/nfl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NFL PAGE<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"J73WM4RAQ5FNBJVCHX2AA4FANQ\">Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AMarkG1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@AMarkG1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Alabama tight end Robbie Ouzts has signed his first NFL contract, the Seattle Seahawks announced on Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[406,7,4151,6,238,237,261,2635,790],"class_list":{"0":"post-45874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-crimson-tide","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-iron-bowl","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-seahawks","13":"tag-seattle","14":"tag-seattle-seahawks","15":"tag-seattleseahawks","16":"tag-tigers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114498613197726758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45874","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=45874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}