Overview

• Ezeiruaku signed his four-year, $10.155 million rookie contract on July 17 with more than $8.5 million guaranteed.
• The holdout began in May after the Houston Texans awarded Jayden Higgins the first fully guaranteed second-round deal, prompting 30 of 32 second-rounders to refuse traditional partial guarantees.
• San Francisco’s Alfred Collins broke the impasse by accepting an 88 percent guarantee, setting off a wave of enhanced guarantee agreements across the second round.
• The signed deal clears Ezeiruaku to join the Cowboys’ Oxnard, California training camp roster without facing daily holdout fines.
• Agents First, representing eight second-round picks including Ezeiruaku, leveraged collective bargaining power to challenge the NFL’s traditional rookie wage scale guarantee structure.