{"id":716977,"date":"2026-06-21T07:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T07:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/716977\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T07:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T07:33:17","slug":"drew-allar-one-of-14-draft-picks-yet-to-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/716977\/","title":{"rendered":"Drew Allar One Of 14 Draft Picks Yet To Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Training camp is five weeks away. The Pittsburgh Steelers rookie class is about to put on the pads, prepare for their first preseason game, and the evaluation of the group will earnestly begin. The large 10-man draft class is ready to go. Almost, anyway. Quarterback Drew Allar still hasn\u2019t signed his rookie contract, making him the last member of the team and one of just a handful in the NFL to be unsigned.<\/p>\n

As Dave and I discussed on Friday\u2019s The Terrible Podcast, Allar is one of just 14 NFL rookies who haven\u2019t inked a deal. Nearly one-third of the list is made up of quarterbacks. Both first-rounders, Las Vegas\u2019 Fernando Mendoza and Los Angeles\u2019 Ty Simpson, haven\u2019t agreed to deals. Nor has the Arizona Cardinals second-round pick Carson Beck.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the group:<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s the holdup? Allar and his camp are likely waiting out Beck getting his deal done \u2013 as are the draft picks immediately behind him. To shape how much, if any, guaranteed money the player will get as the bar continues shifting deeper into the draft class each year. It\u2019s why Germie Bernard\u2019s deal is probably fully guaranteed.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Allar was taken 11 picks after Beck and in the third round, but there\u2019s always the chance Beck gets a fully guaranteed deal that may give Allar\u2019s camp a little more leverage. At least, there\u2019s no harm in waiting and letting the situation play out just to make sure.<\/p>\n

The group behind Allar comes with separate caveats. McCoy\u2019s and Proctor\u2019s deals are complicated by health. A first-round talent, McCoy fell to the top of Day Three due to long-term concerns over the health of his knee. Proctor tore his meniscus<\/a> in spring work and could miss all of his rookie season. There might be more haggling over the fine details of his rookie contract, like his split salary that would kick in when Proctor lands on injured reserve.<\/p>\n

On the surface, it might feel unnerving that Allar hasn\u2019t signed his contract. The only deadline is to have it done before July 28th, when the team reports to camp, and there\u2019s every reason to believe it\u2019ll be done before then. The Cardinals report to camp on July 22nd<\/a>. Assuming Beck\u2019s deal is done by then, it\u2019ll create a domino effect for the group behind to slot in.<\/p>\n

Once the first camp practice begins, expect Allar to be on the field with his contract signed and sealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Training camp is five weeks away. The Pittsburgh Steelers rookie class is about to put on the pads,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[25813,40548,349,1321,99,3795],"class_list":["post-716977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-carson-beck","tag-drew-allar","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-sports","tag-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716977","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=716977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}