{"id":634355,"date":"2026-05-10T07:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T07:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/634355\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T07:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T07:49:14","slug":"texans-second-round-pick-kayden-mcdonald-agree-to-rookie-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/634355\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans, second-round pick Kayden McDonald agree to rookie contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texans have taken care of an important piece of business on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Houston and second-round pick Kayden McDonald have agreed to his rookie contract, ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter reports. <\/p>\n<p>McDonald\u2019s fully guaranteed deal is worth just over $12.9 million. <\/p>\n<p>The No. 36 overall pick of the 2026 draft, McDonald was the last player remaining in the green room in Pittsburgh when he was selected on Day 2. <\/p>\n<p>McDonald was a first-team All-Big Ten selection and the Big Ten Defensive Lineman of the Year in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texans have taken care of an important piece of business on Saturday. Houston and second-round pick Kayden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-634355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634355","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=634355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}