{"id":45942,"date":"2025-05-13T04:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T04:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/45942\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T04:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T04:58:10","slug":"3-with-alabama-football-roots-earn-nfl-contracts-as-tryout-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/45942\/","title":{"rendered":"3 with Alabama football roots earn NFL contracts as tryout players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DFXHHMMG5BFYXHTUBQX77EIF7A\">Three players with Alabama football roots have signed NFL contracts after attending rookie minicamps this weekend on a tryout basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZCAPYXVGMJBYVMVGQSSCNU4IOE\">The players from Alabama high schools and colleges who earned their way into offseason NFL programs with their weekend work were:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/auburnfootball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/auburnfootball\/\">Auburn<\/a> tight end Luke Deal signed with the Detroit Lions.Western Kentucky wide receiver Kisean Johnson signed with the Cleveland Browns. Johnson played at Ramsay High School and was at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/alabamastate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/alabamastate\/\">Alabama State<\/a> in the 2021, 2022 and 2023 seasons before joining the Hilltoppers.Washington State linebacker Wesley Steiner signed with the Las Vegas Raiders. Steiner played for Auburn in the 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"IFPVGXHLAVDRBOMYWMOLQHBQAM\">Monday\u2019s NFL transactions report wasn\u2019t as good for another former Auburn player. After announcing they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/sports\/2025\/05\/nfl-teams-sign-6-undrafted-rookies-with-alabama-football-roots.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/sports\/2025\/05\/nfl-teams-sign-6-undrafted-rookies-with-alabama-football-roots.html\">had signed Jerrin Thompson<\/a> on Thursday, the Tennessee Titans released the former Tigers safety on Monday after holding their rookie minicamp this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"57K7VZNLAZFJTBQK6SA76RI6DI\">FOR MORE OF AL.COM\u2019S COVERAGE OF THE NFL, GO TO OUR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/nfl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL PAGE<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"24HJVP6RZJHTLKAWMLQIEFK7YM\">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":"Three players with Alabama football roots have signed NFL contracts after attending rookie minicamps this weekend on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,49,48,326,6103,790],"class_list":{"0":"post-45942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-sec","12":"tag-sooners","13":"tag-tigers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114498766311755468","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45942","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=45942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}