{"id":724634,"date":"2026-06-09T06:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/724634\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T06:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:57:09","slug":"patriots-stick-to-nfl-trend-with-2nd-rd-pick-refusing-to-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/724634\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots Stick To NFL Trend With 2nd-Rd Pick Refusing To Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, the Cincinnati Bengals became the most infamous example of the negotiating power of a team’s draft pick when first-round selection Shemar Stewart nearly returned to Texas A&M after a contract dispute that lasted well into August.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All around the NFL, 2025 second-round draft picks were holding out from mandatory mini-camps and OTAs as their agents fought for more player-friendly deals. The Cleveland Browns broke the ice when they agreed to fully guarantee the contracts of both of their second-round picks that year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

New England Patriots<\/a>\u00a02025 second-round pick TreVeyon Henderson did not sign his own contract until July 19. He was the final member of the draft class to put pen to paper.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Henderson was able to get his four-year contract fully guaranteed when he did finally sign.<\/p>\n

The cycle has repeated itself in 2026; 28th overall pick Caleb Lomu signed his Patriots contract on Monday, making 55th overall selection Gabe Jacas the final player holding out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jacas is no doubt looking to execute the same game plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some of this year’s second-rounders have been able to land fully guaranteed deals. Edge rushers T.J. Parker and R Mason Thomas, who were taken 20 and 15 picks before Jacas, respectively, got all of their money guaranteed.<\/p>\n

But the other draftees selected in the 50s who have already signed have done so under the pretense of about 80-90% of their contracts guaranteed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I suspect Jacas’ deal will get done next week and land closer to that of the other players selected in the 50s, rather than following Henderson’s blueprint.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More NFL:\u00a0Patriots Declined Multiple A.J. Brown Trade Packages, Months Of Negotiations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, the Cincinnati Bengals became the most infamous example of the negotiating power of a team’s draft…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-724634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724634","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=724634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}