{"id":64263,"date":"2025-05-20T06:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T06:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/64263\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T06:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T06:48:15","slug":"browns-qb-agree-to-rookie-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/64263\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns, QB agree to rookie deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Five NFL games we can’t wait to watch in the 2025 season<\/p>\n

The NFL schedule for the 2025-2026 season has been released. Here are a few games on our must-watch list.<\/p>\n

Shedeur Sanders<\/a> is officially an NFL player.<\/p>\n

While he had to wait until the fifth round of the 2025 NFL Draft<\/a> to hear his name called, the 144th pick didn’t have to wait long before inking his deal to play in the league.<\/p>\n

The Cleveland Browns<\/a> announced on Monday that they have signed Sanders to his rookie deal. The contract is a four-year deal worth $4.6 million. For reference, fellow 2025 draft pick and current teammate\u00a0Dillon Gabriel<\/a>\u00a0will eventually receive a slotted four-year deal worth $6.2 million for being drafted two rounds earlier.<\/p>\n

It hasn’t been an easy road this offseason, but the ink is dried and now the work begins. Here’s what to know about Sanders’ first NFL contract.<\/p>\n

BROWNS QB DEPTH CHART: Cleveland’s quarterback room after drafting Shedeur Sanders<\/a><\/p>\n

Shedeur Sanders contract details<\/p>\n

Sanders signed a four-year deal worth $4.6 million.<\/p>\n

The quarterback will carry an average annual value (AAV) of about $1.16 million and received a signing bonus of $446,553, according to Spotrac<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It represents a steep drop from the contract that is slotted in the first round, which would’ve been a four-year deal worth over $40 million in total value if drafted inside the top five.<\/p>\n

Early in the process, Sanders was considered in the running for the No. 2 pick, which later became his college teammate, Travis Hunter<\/a>. The Jacksonville Jaguars’ two-way player received a contract worth $46.5 million in total value.<\/p>\n

Sanders carried an NIL evaluation of $6.5 million, according to On3 Sports<\/a>, but elected to pass on his final year of eligibility to enter the NFL draft.<\/p>\n

The move hasn’t worked out from a monetary standpoint, but he did land on a team that presents an opportunity to start. It’s a crowded room in Cleveland, but anyone’s guess who eventually ends up with the job.<\/p>\n

So while it’s a rocky start for Sanders in the pros, things change quickly \u2013 especially if he outplays that rookie deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five NFL games we can’t wait to watch in the 2025 season The NFL schedule for the 2025-2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[247,265,86,85,54,7,123,677,679,248,267,88,6,15,907,245,537,530,140,139,17,9,266,678,2015,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-64263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-browns","11":"tag-cleveland","12":"tag-cleveland-browns","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-hunter","15":"tag-modular","16":"tag-modular-story","17":"tag-national","18":"tag-national-sports","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-nfl-draft","22":"tag-now","23":"tag-overall","24":"tag-overall-positive","25":"tag-positive","26":"tag-sanders","27":"tag-shedeur","28":"tag-shedeur-sanders","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-sports-news","31":"tag-story","32":"tag-travis","33":"tag-travis-hunter"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64263","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=64263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}