Roster moves: Redskins sign 7 of 8 draft picks

May 10, 2018

by Steve Thomas

The Redskins announced this afternoon that they have signed 7 of the team’s 8 picks in the recent NFL Draft.  The only pick who remains unsigned is offensive tackle Geron Christian, selected in the third round out of Louisville.

Terms of the deals were not disclosed, but all rookie draft pick contracts are 4 years in length.  The NFL’s collective bargaining agreement provides teams with a 5th year option in all first round draft pick contracts, so the Redskins have a 5th year option on Daron Payne.  The 2011 CBA established a rookie salary pool for all teams, and although teams are technically allowed to shift money from one draft pick to another, as a practical matter, the projected cap hits for each player are already established.  According to www.spotrac.com, the following are the 2018 projected cap hits for each rookie:

Rd 1, pick 13: DT Daron Payne – $2,643,642

Rd 2, pick 59: RB Derrius Guice – $829,379

Rd 3, pick 74: OT Geron Christian – $724,750 (unsigned)

Rd 4, pick 109: S Troy Apke – $652,422

Rd 5, pick 163: DT Tim Settle – $526,793

Rd 6, pick 197: ILB Shaun-Dion Hamilton – $504,764

Rd 7, pick 241: CB Greg Stroman – $498,944

Rd 7, pick #256 (Mr. Irrelevant): WR Trey Quinn – $497,268

During this offseason, the contracts of the bottom four picks – Settle, Hamilton, Stroman, and Quinn – will fall under the Rule of 51 and will not count against the salary cap.

Our salary cap page on this website will be updated with these contract numbers in the next few days; however, the total projected cap hits for all of these rookie draft picks and the projected Rule of 51 is already shown at the bottom of the chart.

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