{"id":693795,"date":"2026-05-25T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/693795\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:52:08","slug":"rams-gave-less-guaranteed-money-to-udfas-than-any-nfl-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/693795\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams gave less guaranteed money to UDFAs than any NFL team"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not going to be easy for rookies to make the Los Angeles Rams<\/a>\u2019 53-man roster this year. They returned many of the same players from last year\u2019s team, while also adding standout defenders such as Trent McDuffie<\/a> and Jaylen Watson<\/a> to upgrade the cornerback group.<\/p>\n

As a result, the Rams kept their draft class small, only selecting five players in total. They did sign 18 undrafted rookies<\/a> but they\u2019ll face an uphill climb this summer, too, especially after seeing the minimal guaranteed money they got.<\/p>\n

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Spotrac released contract details<\/a> for the Rams\u2019 undrafted rookies and only five of them got a signing bonus. Combined, their 18 undrafted free agents received only $77,500 guaranteed at signing, the least of any team in the NFL this year. The next-closest team is the Steelers at $80,000 in guarantees, and they only signed eight undrafted rookies.<\/p>\n

Every other team paid out at least $125,000 in guarantees to their undrafted rookies. The Chiefs led the NFL with $3.1 million in guaranteed money paid out to undrafted free agents, having signed 22 players after the 2026 draft. The Chargers\u2019 $244,000 in signing bonuses led the NFL in that department. The Rams\u2019 $77,500 in signing bonuses was the sixth-lowest.<\/p>\n

What does this mean? That the Rams aren\u2019t committing strongly to any undrafted rookies. Syracuse tight end Dan Villari leads the Rams\u2019 undrafted rookies with a $45,000 signing bonus, so he accounts for more than half of their team total. But as a tight end in a deep position group, he\u2019s still unlikely to make the team.<\/p>\n

The Rams have gotten some big contributions from undrafted free agents in the past, including Jaylen McCollough<\/a>, Xavier Smith<\/a>, Omar Speights<\/a> and Justin Dedich<\/a>, but it could be tough for anyone to make this year\u2019s roster as an undrafted rookie.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Rams Wire: Rams’ undrafted rookies got least guaranteed money of any team<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not going to be easy for rookies to make the Los Angeles Rams\u2019 53-man roster this year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,330636,85890,338428,1263,593,253165,97584,10032,25430,85,39786,296125,168752],"class_list":["post-693795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jaylen-mccollough","tag-jaylen-watson","tag-justin-dedich","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-nfl","tag-omar-speights","tag-rookies","tag-signing-bonus","tag-signing-bonuses","tag-sports","tag-trent-mcduffie","tag-undrafted-free-agents","tag-xavier-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}