The Cowboys Still Haven't Signed Donovan Ezeiruaku, And That's TOTALLY Fine..

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Mauricio Rodriguez talks about the ongoing contract situation between the Dallas Cowboys and Donovan Ezeiruaku, who remains unsigned. The situation is tricky, but there's no reason to be concerned.

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00:00So the Dallas Cowboys have signed every single draft pick they made in the 2025 NFL draft

00:06except for one player. Should we be worried?

00:12Hey what's up everyone it's Mauricio Rodriguez here at ADZ Sports Dallas. I feel like we have

00:18to talk about this because the Cowboys have indeed signed all but one of their 2025 NFL

00:25draft picks and I've seen some stuff on social media that made me go you know what we we have

00:31to address it and I don't mean this as criticism or anything like that but I've seen multiple content

00:36creators talk about the situation for this Cowboys rookie and compare it to Shamar Stewart and the

00:42Cincinnati Bengals who are involved in just a big dramatic contract fight but this is nothing like

00:50that so I wanted to clear that up. Now we are talking about the Cowboys second round draft pick

00:55Donovan Ezraku who is currently unsigned and I would assume it's going to take a while for him

01:01to get signed. Now this doesn't say much about the Cowboys or the rookie himself the sides appear to

01:08be unbothered and Ezraku even recently told reporters that he is not worrying about it and he's just

01:14letting the agent and the team figure it out. But while with the Bengals and Shamar Stewart we have a

01:19situation where the Bengals want to change the way they do contracts and they kind of want to screw

01:24the player that is not really what's going on with the Cowboys and Ezraku. In fact we have an NFL

01:31wide problem when it comes to second round rookie contracts. At the time of me recording this video

01:37there are actually 30 of 32 players picked in the second round this year that have not signed their

01:44deals and if you're wondering why well I'm about to tell you. What happened is that the 33rd and the

01:5034th overall draft picks of this year in other words the first two picks of the second round

01:56got fully guaranteed deals which is not really normal around the NFL. Now quick note here you

02:03cannot negotiate total values of contracts in the NFL draft. What you can negotiate though is

02:10guaranteed money and also just the language surrounding the guarantees when do the guarantees

02:15void and that sort of stuff which is by the way what's going on with Shamar Stewart and the Bengals

02:21they're fighting over language of the contract. So because the top two players picked in the second

02:25round of this year's NFL draft got fully guaranteed deals naturally every agent and every player want

02:32their deals to also be guaranteed if they got picked in the second round. If they got it why should I not

02:39get it as well? Which puts the entire NFL in a very awkward spot because some of these dominoes

02:45have to fall at some point but the players do have some leverage here because they're a group of 30

02:51players and at some point I'm guessing some of these teams will begin to cave in or some of these players

02:57will begin to cave in and maybe it will take just one or two and then the rest of the dominoes will fall

03:03but I can bet you none of these agents wants to be the first to cave and none of these teams want to be

03:08the first team to cave either. So while I'm not sure when this is going to get solved for the Cowboys

03:13and Donovan as a Raku I do want to tell you rest assured this is not going to be a big big problem

03:21going into training camp as a Raku has been around for OTAs he's been around for minicamp he's expected

03:26to be around for training camp so don't worry about it this is just an interesting sports business

03:32event story line to monitor closely

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