The Tennessee Titans announced Wednesday that they have signed quarterback Cam Ward, the 2025 NFL Draft’s top pick, to his rookie contract.
Ward’s deal is for four years with an option for a fifth and is worth $48.7 million, per the NFL’s 2025 rookie scale, according to Spotrac.com.
The 6-foot-2, 219-pound former Miami star turned heads at Incarnate Word and Washington State, before grabbing the national spotlight in his lone season in South Beach.
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He finished the 2024 season as the Davey O’Brien Award winner and was Miami’s first Heisman Trophy finalist since 2002. He passed for 4,313 yards and 39 touchdowns, both Hurricanes single-season records, and led Miami (10-3) to its first 10-win season since 2017.
He also broke former Houston QB Case Keenum’s Division I record for career passing touchdowns (155) with 158 scores.
Through much of the draft process, Ward was compared to former Colorado and current Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders, as most pundits had them as the top two prospects at their position in this year’s class.
Sanders fell to the fifth round, however, and due to his draft position, Sanders’ rookie deal is worth only $4.6 million, less than a tenth of what Ward is set to receive.
The NFL’s rookie wage scale has made the process of signing draft picks relatively routine for franchises. There are, however, still some holdouts.
Cincinnati Bengals first-round pick Shemar Stewart, for example, is currently not participating in his team’s offseason activities, reportedly due to issues with the language in his contract.
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