Demetrius Knight

[SunsetBengal]

(8 hours ago)XsandOs Wrote: Sunset; last year's 33rd pick (Keon Coleman) got ~97% guaranteed. The 34th pick (Ladd McConkey) got ~92% guaranteed. The 35th pick got ~88% guaranteed.

Everyone is waiting for Nick Emmanwori to sign with Seahawks - and he wants 100% guaranteed. 

And yes, before NIL, players came into the draft worse than broke. They were in debt to their agency for upfront money needed to train and get ready for the combine. 

Now the debt leverage is gone. Also, some of these guys made more in College than they will make in their NFL contract. 

Maybe they will play for the love of the game 

Emmanwori is going to be a force in the league (at least I think so), he might actually be worth a fully guaranteed deal. The issue that this creates is that all of the other 2nd round picks all feel like they're now worth fully guaranteed contracts. If things continue on this trajectory, it won't be many more years before ALL NFL contracts will be fully guaranteed, similar to MLB.