{"id":90082,"date":"2025-05-30T07:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T07:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/90082\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T07:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T07:40:15","slug":"tennessee-titans-sign-no-1-overall-pick-cam-ward-to-rookie-contract-with-48-75m-guaranteed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/90082\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Titans sign No. 1 overall pick Cam Ward to rookie contract with $48.75M guaranteed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/sports\/titans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tennessee Titans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tennessee Titans<\/a> have signed No. 1 overall pick <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/history-nfl-no-1-overall-214630680.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cam Ward;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cam Ward<\/a> to his rookie contract, the team announced May 21.<\/p>\n<p>Ward signed a four-year contract that includes a fully guaranteed $48.75 million, FOX Sports reported, with a fifth-year team option.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Ward has been on the practice field at Ascension Saint Thomas Sports Park the past couple of weeks during rookie minicamp, with OTAs to begin May 27.<\/p>\n<p>Second-round pick Oluwafemi Oladejo and fourth-round pick Chimere Dike are the lone unsigned picks from the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/tennessee-titans\/336\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Titans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Titans<\/a>&#8216; 2025 draft class.<\/p>\n<p>Ward was selected No. 1 overall in April&#8217;s draft following a sterling 2024 season at the University of Miami, earning ACC Player of the Year honors. He also was a Heisman Trophy finalist.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans have six days of OTAs beginning May 27 and spread across 10 days before mandatory minicamp is held June 10-12.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/titans\/2025\/05\/21\/cam-ward-contract-titans-rookie-deal\/83776760007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tennessee Titans sign No. 1 overall pick Cam Ward to rookie contract;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tennessee Titans sign No. 1 overall pick Cam Ward to rookie contract<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tennessee Titans have signed No. 1 overall pick Cam Ward to his rookie contract, the team announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[127,7,875,6,1022,195,3243,526,394,2411,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-90082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-cam-ward","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-fox-sports","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-oluwafemi-oladejo","13":"tag-rookie-contract","14":"tag-rookie-minicamp","15":"tag-tennessee","16":"tag-tennessee-titans","17":"tag-tennesseetitans","18":"tag-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114595654902181703","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90082","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=90082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}