{"id":19357,"date":"2025-07-18T16:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/19357\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:29:11","slug":"jets-sign-draft-pick-mason-taylor-as-nfl-dominoes-begin-to-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/19357\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets sign draft pick Mason Taylor as NFL dominoes begin to fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jets\u2019 week of significant signings finally reached Mason Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>After inking both Garrett Wilson and Sauce Gardner <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/16\/sports\/what-garrett-wilson-sauce-gardner-deals-say-about-this-jets-rebuild\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to four-year extensions<\/a>, the Jets signed their second-round pick Taylor to a four-year, $10.46 million contract that is more than 91 percent guaranteed, The Post confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>By getting the deal done Friday, it assures that the projected starting tight end will report to camp alongside other rookies Saturday and be ready to go when the Jets practice for the first time in training camp on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36574919\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jets-draft-pick-mason-taylor-104173788.jpg\" alt=\"ets draft pick Mason Taylor speaks to the media during the Jets rookie minicamp in Florham Park, NJ.\" class=\"wp-image-36574919\"  \/>The Jets signed second-round pick Mason Taylor. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n<p>The logjam of 30 unsigned second-round picks across the NFL \u2013 all of whom were fighting for more guaranteed money in the fourth year of their contracts \u2013 began to break up with a couple signings Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Fully guaranteed rookie contracts had been reserved for just first-round picks until the first two picks of the second round this year received those rare deals.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7890625;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36574922\" width=\"466\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/46-stretches-nfl-football-teams-104169503.jpg\" alt=\"Mason Taylor during Jets rookie mini-camp.\" class=\"wp-image-36574922\"  \/>Mason Taylor during Jets rookie mini-camp. AP<\/p>\n<p>Taylor will get 60 percent of his fourth-year salary guaranteed, which is a 55 percent increase over what the corresponding No. 42 pick in the 2024 draft received, according to NFL Network. <\/p>\n<p>Taylor\u2019s contract is worth $3.3 million in 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jets\u2019 week of significant signings finally reached Mason Taylor. After inking both Garrett Wilson and Sauce Gardner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[5702,349,14593,99],"class_list":["post-19357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft-2025","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}