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Saints Rookie QB Tyler Shough Searching For A Guarantee
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Kyle Crabbs discusses how the New Orleans Saints second round draft pick quarterback Tyler Shough is wanting a guarantee in his contract before he signs on the dotted line
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The NFL finally has a breakthrough on second-round rookies signing contracts,
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but this conversation, like most things do in the NFL, ends with a quarterback.
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I'm Kyle Kraus from A to Z Sports, and it's been an absolutely grueling summer for NFL teams
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picking between No. 35 and 64 in the 2025 NFL Draft to get their rookies under contract.
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The NFL's collective bargaining agreement sets the wage scale,
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so the total value of these contracts has been set in stone for quite some time.
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But the amount of that value that is fully guaranteed when you put pen to paper
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is the part that agents and teams have not been able to see eye to eye on
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after the Houston Texans gave Jaden Higgins, the 34th overall pick, a fully guaranteed contract.
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Now, this scaring contest has gone on for months,
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but the 49ers finally had the breakthrough when they signed the 43rd overall pick,
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Alfred Collins, to a four-year contract at his established rate,
01:02
with 88% of the contract fully guaranteed.
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It's a significant jump in the amount that is fully guaranteed at signing
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versus what last year's 43rd overall pick was guaranteed.
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And the aftermath of this is you've seen many of the teams who picked players
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after pick No. 43 use that as the baseline to agree to terms on their respective deals
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with their respective second-round draft choices.
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We also saw Seattle's Nick Eamon-Warri, who was picked 35th overall,
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get the third fully guaranteed contract for a second-round draft choice,
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joining Carson Sir in Cleveland with pick 33,
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and of course, Jaden Higgins with the Houston Texans at pick No. 34.
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It still leaves this awkward void in the end of the 30s.
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And pick No. 40 is the name that everybody has soft-circled
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because it's the only quarterback in the round, Tyler Shuck.
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Shuck has a sizable opportunity to ask for a fully guaranteed contract,
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especially after the 41st overall pick, TJ Sanders,
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signed a deal that had 95% of the total value guaranteed
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with the Buffalo Bills on Thursday night.
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So, the question is, do the teams that pick in front of Shuck
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wait for Shuck to establish the depth of how far the guarantees go?
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Or do teams like the Browns and the Dolphins and the Patriots
02:24
preempt and simply fall in line with what Seattle has now conceded
02:28
in giving the third fully guaranteed contract?
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But with pick No. 41 getting 95% fully guaranteed,
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those teams in the mid to late 30s don't have a big battle to fight.
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And because Tyler Shuck has the positional value of quarterback
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in his back pocket, many across the league expect that he too will fall in line
02:47
as one of the players to ultimately end up getting a fully guaranteed contract in 2025.
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