Mike Florio shares 3 main elements that players can negotiate in rookie contracts

Rookie contracts are standard in their base value as tied to draft slots, but there are a few ancillary elements that players can negotiate.

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00:00Here in Chicago, a lot of consternation over the fact that Caleb Williams and Roma Dunzey

00:05both are unsigned with about 10 days before the training camp begins.

00:11How concerned should they be?

00:13It's just a week until the rookie's report.

00:16I think I said last week that if we get to one week removed from the 4th of July and

00:21they're still not signed, you get to the point where you're like, what's going on here?

00:26Because there isn't much to negotiate in these rookie contracts.

00:31After the 2011 CBA, the dollars are what they are.

00:35There's three categories for potential dispute.

00:37One, when do I get my signing bonus money?

00:39Do I get it all now?

00:40Are you going to try to defer it later this year, into next year, whatever?

00:44Two, what does it take to avoid my ongoing guarantees?

00:47That was the Roe Quinn Smith holdout six, seven years ago.

00:51What is it that I could do that potentially allows you to say, we're wiping out your guarantees

00:55and we're cutting you because you're one of the first round picks that didn't work out

00:59because we know roughly half of them don't.

01:00And then finally, if the full guarantees are in place and we cut you, can you double dip?

01:07Do you get offsets attached to whatever you would make if you go to another team?

01:12Those are the three, that's it.

01:14There's really nothing else that you can haggle about.

01:17So I don't know.

01:21And the complication for Caleb Williams is he doesn't have an agent.

01:25So this may be something that whoever is advising him has to learn on the fly, which could slow

01:29the whole process down.