{"id":6909,"date":"2025-07-19T01:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T01:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6909\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T01:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T01:44:07","slug":"mizzou-tigers-football-star-luther-burden-iii-makes-nfl-history-with-bears-rookie-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6909\/","title":{"rendered":"Mizzou Tigers football star Luther Burden III makes NFL history with Bears rookie contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL\u2019s rookie contract landscape just changed again. Chicago Bears rookie wide receiver Luther Burden III signed his deal Friday, and according to<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/adamschefter\/status\/1946310209091068272?s=46\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Adam Schefter on X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> Adam Schefter on X<\/a>, it\u2019s the first fully guaranteed rookie contract ever given to the No. 39 overall pick in league history.<\/p>\n<p>This is a massive shift for the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Just a few years ago, second-round picks and even some late first-rounders rarely received full guarantees. Now, guarantees are creeping lower and lower into the draft. Burden isn\u2019t just cashing in.<\/p>\n<p>Precedent is being established.<\/p>\n<p>And it begs the question: Did Deshaun Watson create this world, or did college football\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/mgoblog.com\/mgoboard\/nil-wild-wild-west-about-get-wilder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NIL Wild Wild West;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> NIL Wild Wild West<\/a> push it here?<\/p>\n<p>When the Cleveland Browns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/44135374\/source-browns-restructure-deshaun-watson-deal-get-cap-compliant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:gave Watson $230 million fully guaranteed;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">gave Watson $230 million fully guaranteed<\/a>, NFL agents started dreaming of protections they previously couldn\u2019t get. However, the reality is that this trend may have more to do with what\u2019s happening in college football\u2019s new financial landscape than with the NFL itself.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Burden reportedly had<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/luther-burden-80996\/nil-deals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:significant NIL opportunities at Missouri;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> significant NIL opportunities at Missouri<\/a>, so why would he or any top rookie now accept a deal without firm guarantees?<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re coming from the Wild Wild West of NIL money, NFL teams can no longer say this is just how we\u2019ve always done things.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s clear these rookie contracts are evolving fast. Burden\u2019s deal won\u2019t be the last fully guaranteed one we see.<\/p>\n<p>The question now is how long it will take for this to become the standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL\u2019s rookie contract landscape just changed again. Chicago Bears rookie wide receiver Luther Burden III signed his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[7580,49,48,1735,1724,7581,7254,514,2683,82,7582],"class_list":["post-6909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-adam-schefter","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago-bears","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-deshaun-watson","tag-luther-burden-iii","tag-nfl","tag-rookie-contract","tag-sports","tag-wild-wild-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}