Josiah Deguara

Career StatsD+

Year	Team	GP	Rec	Yards	TD
Career		77	53	471	3
2025		12	3	21	1
2024		15	3	14	0
2023		15	8

Current Contract

Contract Value Index (CVI)

Josiah Deguara's $1.2M deal earns a D- CVI, representing a slight overpay for an unproven tight end entering free agency. While the financial commitment appears modest on the surface, paying seven figures for a player in the unproven performance tier creates questionable value when replacement-level options exist for minimum wage. Deguara has failed to establish himself as a reliable contributor despite multiple seasons in Green Bay's system, making this contract feel like a team betting on potential that may never materialize. The one-year structure does limit long-term risk, but even short-term investments in unproven commodities rarely pay dividends at the tight end position where production typically correlates strongly with opportunity and target share. Any team signing Deguara at this price point is essentially paying a premium for a developmental project when the position group offers better-established veterans for similar money.

Contracts in the Same Value Band

Other same-position deals the Contract Value Index also places in the D band — a quick read on where Josiah's contract sits relative to comparable money.

Performance Analysis

Per-game impact for Josiah Deguara pencils out to a D+ performance grade. The 29-year-old tight end occupies firmly below-average territory among position peers, a standing reinforced by his 2025 season: 21 receiving yards across 12 games represents minimal offensive contribution for a player who should be operating as at minimum a reliable third or fourth option in the passing game. His tackle count of three in those same twelve contests signals that blocking and defensive role responsibility also failed to compensate for absent receiving production — a red flag for a tight end whose path to employment depends on two-way utility. Deguara's durability was there (all twelve games), but snaps and opportunity appear to have been scarce, a gap that cannot be bridged by availability alone when actual output craters this badly. His six-year career arc — 53 catches for 471 yards total — paints the picture of a journeyman trapped in a reserve role with no trajectory toward starter reps or featured usage. At 29 with free agent status heading into training camp season, Deguara now faces the steepest test of his career: prove immediate special teams and blocking value in a crowded tight end market, or risk sliding toward the NFL's organizational fringes entirely.

How Josiah Compares at the Position

Josiah Deguara ranks 118th of 164 graded tight ends by performance. That slots Josiah between Zack Kuntz (D+) just ahead and Chris Manhertz (D+) just behind.

Current Sentiment

Josiah Deguara's public perception heading into 2026 sits squarely in the bottom tier of NFL discourse — not because of any singular controversy, but because of the slow erosion of relevance that defines journeyman careers at a position rich with competition. The narrative around the 29-year-old has settled into a neutral-to-negative hum, with analysts framing him as a depth tight end whose six-year career résumé reflects modest contributions rather than developmental progress — a player whose 53-catch, 471-yard career arc signals role-player ceilings, not upside worth investing in. His 2025 performance grade of F does nothing to complicate that story, and the 2025 season stat line — 21 receiving yards across 12 games — reinforces the perception of a player operating well below the threshold of even a reliable backup contributor. His current free agent status is arguably the loudest signal of all: no team felt compelled to retain him coming out of last season, which in the NFL's cold transactional calculus reads as a market-wide verdict rather than a coincidence. Media coverage has been sparse, which for a player at this stage of his career is nearly as damaging as negative coverage — irrelevance and neutrality are not the same thing, but in a crowded tight end market, both produce the same outcome. Until Deguara secures a training camp invite and demonstrates meaningful value in blocking and special teams — the two currencies that keep depth tight ends employed — the narrative has no mechanism to improve. The sentiment stays flat and unfavorable, and with the regular season still 125 days away, the window to change that story is narrowing fast.