{"id":275396,"date":"2026-05-02T01:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/275396\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T01:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:36:10","slug":"caleb-downs-other-draft-picks-ink-rookie-deals-with-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/275396\/","title":{"rendered":"Caleb Downs, other draft picks ink rookie deals with Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRISCO\u00a0\u2014 Before the first rookie minicamp practice on Friday the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cowboys<\/a> announced five of their six draft picks signed contracts.<br \/>Safety Caleb Downs, a first-round pick, signed a four-year deal worth $28.9 million with $17.515 million guaranteed. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/article\/caleb-downs-mindset-dallas-cowboys-nfl-draft-22222733.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Downs was the 11th overall pick of the draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence participated in the rookie minicamp.<\/p>\n<p>In the last two years, some second-round draft picks secured fully guaranteed contracts in similar fashion to the\u00a0first-rounders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys are without a second-round pick, and the possibility of third-round picks getting fully guaranteed deals or more of a percentage of their contracts guaranteed is something the\u00a0NFLPA has sought for years.<\/p>\n<p>All the draft picks signed four-year deals.<\/p>\n<p>Downs, as is the case with\u00a0first-rounders, has the ability to earn a fifth-year option picked up for the 2030 season. The decision on that won&#8217;t be decided until after he&#8217;s completed three NFL seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRISCO\u00a0\u2014 Before the first rookie minicamp practice on Friday the Cowboys announced five of their six draft picks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1638,102,104,103,92708,88229,89124,89494],"class_list":["post-275396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-brief","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-frisco","tag-tp-nfl","tag-tp-nfl-draft","tag-tp-the-star-in-frisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}