{"id":209157,"date":"2025-03-21T19:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T23:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=209157"},"modified":"2025-03-21T19:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T23:51:54","slug":"jameis-winston-signs-contract-new-york-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/03\/21\/jameis-winston-signs-contract-new-york-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: First-Overall Pick Signs Contract With New York Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>10-year veteran quarterback Jameis Winston signed a new two-year, $8 million contract with the New York Giants. Winston, the first-overall pick in the 2015 NFL Draft, spent the 2024 season with the Cleveland Browns but has also played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/buccaneers\/\" target=\"_self\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/saints\" target=\"_self\">New Orleans Saints<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Jameis Winston, New York Giants, Agree to Contract<\/h2>\n<p>Winston spent the 2024 season as the primary quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. Starting the season as the backup, Winston earned the starting job after Deshaun Watson suffered a season-ending Achilles injury. Bringing some life to the passing attack, Winston appeared in 12 games while making seven starts. While on the field, the quarterback completed 61.1% of his passes for 2,121 yards, 13 touchdowns, and 12 interceptions. While he had his moments, Cleveland benched him following a disastrous Week 15 performance against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/chiefs\" target=\"_self\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jameis Winston originally entered the league as the first-overall pick in the 2015 NFL Draft. Selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Florida State product immediately earned the starting job and put up a promising season. Starting in all 16 games, Winston finished his inaugural season with 4,042 passing yards, 22 touchdowns, 15 interceptions, and a Pro Bowl selection.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida State product remained the starter throughout his rookie contract and became infamous for his volatile play. This high-risk, high-reward style of quarterbacking peaked in 2019 when he completed 380 of his 626 passes for a league-high 5,109 yards, 33 touchdowns, and 30 interceptions. Following the expiration of his rookie contract, then-head coach Bruce Arians decided to part ways with Jameis Winston and <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/28930366\/tom-brady-says-signing-buccaneers\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">move forward with Tom Brady<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Winston quickly signed with the New Orleans Saints to back up Drew Brees and potentially be the heir to his throne. Following the future Hall of Famer&#8217;s retirement in 2021, Winston had his chance to prove himself. The quarterback played well in 2021, going 5-2 before tearing his ACL and prematurely ending his season. Head coach Sean Payton retired after the season, leaving Dennis Allen to lead the team. While Winston was the Week 1 starter in 2022, backup Andy Dalton and his safer style of play soon took the job.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Tommy Gilligan &#8211; USA Today Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran quarterback Jameis Winston has signed a new contract. The former first-overall pick spent the 2024 season with the Cleveland Browns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":209158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,8],"tags":[7809,116,246],"class_list":["post-209157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-browns","tag-cleveland-browns-news","tag-jameis-winston","tag-nfl-news"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209157"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223998,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209157\/revisions\/223998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}