Devon Witherspoon Only Pick from 2023 NFL Draft Still Unsigned
The 2023 NFL Draft saw 259 of the best college football players in the nation selected across all seven rounds, and so far, 258 of them have signed their rookie contracts.
The lone straggler is Seattle Seahawks cornerback Devon Witherspoon, the No. 5 overall pick out of Illinois, who was the first player selected at his position in this year's class.
As Witherspoon and his representatives continues to hammer out the details of his rookie deal with the Seahawks' decision-makers, he's not expected to be on the field when the Seahawks kick off training camp in preparation for the upcoming season, per ESPN's Adam Schefter:
The current collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and the NFLPA includes a rookie wage scale that usually makes these discussions much more straightforward than they had been in the past, but that doesn't mean situations like these can't pop up from time to time.
While all parties would obviously prefer to have ironed this out in time for Witherspoon to join his teammates for the start of training camp, it shouldn't be too much longer before the two sides come to an agreement.