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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00:00The NFL finally has a breakthrough on second-round rookies signing contracts,

00:05but this conversation, like most things do in the NFL, ends with a quarterback.

00:13I'm Kyle Kraus from A to Z Sports, and it's been an absolutely grueling summer for NFL teams

00:19picking between No. 35 and 64 in the 2025 NFL Draft to get their rookies under contract.

00:26The NFL's collective bargaining agreement sets the wage scale,

00:30so the total value of these contracts has been set in stone for quite some time.

00:34But the amount of that value that is fully guaranteed when you put pen to paper

00:39is the part that agents and teams have not been able to see eye to eye on

00:45after the Houston Texans gave Jaden Higgins, the 34th overall pick, a fully guaranteed contract.

00:51Now, this scaring contest has gone on for months,

00:53but the 49ers finally had the breakthrough when they signed the 43rd overall pick,

00:58Alfred Collins, to a four-year contract at his established rate,

01:02with 88% of the contract fully guaranteed.

01:06It's a significant jump in the amount that is fully guaranteed at signing

01:10versus what last year's 43rd overall pick was guaranteed.

01:15And the aftermath of this is you've seen many of the teams who picked players

01:19after pick No. 43 use that as the baseline to agree to terms on their respective deals

01:25with their respective second-round draft choices.

01:27We also saw Seattle's Nick Eamon-Warri, who was picked 35th overall,

01:32get the third fully guaranteed contract for a second-round draft choice,

01:37joining Carson Sir in Cleveland with pick 33,

01:39and of course, Jaden Higgins with the Houston Texans at pick No. 34.

01:43It still leaves this awkward void in the end of the 30s.

01:49And pick No. 40 is the name that everybody has soft-circled

01:52because it's the only quarterback in the round, Tyler Shuck.

01:57Shuck has a sizable opportunity to ask for a fully guaranteed contract,

02:02especially after the 41st overall pick, TJ Sanders,

02:06signed a deal that had 95% of the total value guaranteed

02:10with the Buffalo Bills on Thursday night.

02:12So, the question is, do the teams that pick in front of Shuck

02:16wait for Shuck to establish the depth of how far the guarantees go?

02:21Or do teams like the Browns and the Dolphins and the Patriots

02:24preempt and simply fall in line with what Seattle has now conceded

02:28in giving the third fully guaranteed contract?

02:31But with pick No. 41 getting 95% fully guaranteed,

02:35those teams in the mid to late 30s don't have a big battle to fight.

02:39And because Tyler Shuck has the positional value of quarterback

02:42in his back pocket, many across the league expect that he too will fall in line

02:47as one of the players to ultimately end up getting a fully guaranteed contract in 2025.

02:56You're welcome.

02:57Take care.

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