One week after becoming a 2019 NFL Draft selection of the Baltimore Ravens, former record-setting Penn State quarterback Trace McSorley officially became a professional football player by signing his rookie contract.

Baltimore announced Saturday that McSorley and the franchise reached a four-year deal. Financial details were not disclosed.

"We fell in love with the kid," Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta said after snagging the Nittany Lions star at Pick 197 in Round 6.

Spotrac, which monitors athlete salaries and team salary caps, projected rookie contracts for each of the 11 quarterbacks drafted last week. McSorley — last off the board among peers at the position — was projected to secure an average salary of approximately $670,000.

That's substantial money for anyone fresh off a college campus but this initial starting point leaves plenty of room for vertical growth if he finds NFL success. The first four quarterbacks drafted — Kyler Murray (Arizona Cardinals), Daniel Jones (New York Giants), Dwayne Haskins (Washington Redskins) and Drew Lock (Denver Broncos) — are each expected to receive a signing bonus worth more than the entire potential value of McSorley's deal.

Such is life as a late-round selection. Fortune is far more difficult to attain, and the same can be said about league roster spots.

Despite McSorley's status as the most accomplished quarterback in Penn State history — he is second all-time among Big Ten players with 107 total touchdowns accounted for — a lengthy draft weekend wait was widely expected. Some analysts anticipated he would need to enter the NFL as a free agent.

Baltimore erased that notion with 57 picks left in the process.

"Obviously, I didn’t really know what was going to happen," McSorley said Friday, according to a transcript published by Baltimore. "I was hopeful that I was I going to end up getting picked, but as it started to get later, the thoughts kind of start creeping in the back of your head about what’s going on and those kinds of things. It definitely was a huge sigh of relief when I saw the phone ring, got the call. It had been a long day of waiting. I had my grandparents, aunts and uncles there, so it was just kind of a long day of everyone in the house being pretty quiet and not really saying too much. Once that happened, everyone was cheering and celebrating. [It was] just a huge sigh of relief."

He reported to Ravens facilities last week and spent the last couple of days active on the practice field for rookie minicamp.

“Right now, I’m just focused on learning the offense, taking it day by day and just keeping improving practice to practice," McSorley said.

Baltimore coach John Harbaugh addressed his earliest efforts in a Baltimore uniform on Saturday.

“He gets the ball out for the most part on time,” Harbaugh said. “It’s not like a live practice at all, so you don’t get to see a lot of the other skills, scrambling and stuff, but he operated. How many mistakes did we have, guys jumping offsides or formations not right, or cadence issues? Really, I don’t know if we had one this afternoon. We had a couple yesterday. So, the quarterbacks are doing a good job of handling that, and Trace is obviously doing a good job of that.”

As noted leading up to the draft, McSorley could be called upon to contribute in roles beyond quarterback, drawing comparisons to New Orleans quarterback Taysom Hill.

"We brought him in as a quarterback but we think his skill set really does fit what we're trying to accomplish on offense," DeCosta said. "And he's got potential to do some other things, too."

The Ravens quarterback room is led by 2018 first-round draft pick Lamar Jackson and league veteran Robert Griffin III — each of whom earned a Heisman Trophy in college — after an offseason trade that shipped former Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco to the Denver Broncos. Along with his investments to solidify a spot on Baltimore's QB depth chart, McSorley has embraced the potential for multiple paths toward playing time.

"One of the things that I want to do here is just provide value for anything that the coaching staff needs me to do or coach Harbaugh asks me," McSorley said. "Wherever I can fit in and help this team win games and be able to compete at the highest level, I think that’s kind of my mentality and that’s what I want to do. I’m definitely excited to try and see what else I can do out there and get on the field anywhere I can.”