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Azzi Fudd's historic Dallas Wings rookie contract details revealed following WNBA Draft selection

Brian Jones Profile Picby: Brian Jones04/13/26brianjones_93

The Dallas Wings selected Azzi Fudd No. 1 overall in the 2026 WNBA draft, and her rookie contract details have been revealed. According to Front Office Sports, Fudd will sign a four-year contract with a $500,000 base salary in Year 1. By Year 4, Fudd will have a base salary of $646,360, and the total contract could be over $2.2 million. The fourth year is a team option and could see her earn an escalated salary under the WNBA’s new exceptional players on initial contracts provision.

Azzi Fudd spent her entire college career at Connecticut. During her time with the Huskies, the 23-year-old was selected to the All-Big East First Team twice, named to the AP All-America First Team in 2026, and she led Connecticut to a national title in 2025. This past season, Fudd averaged 13.6 points per game and shot 43.6 percent from beyond the arc. She also helped the Huskies reach the Final Four, but the team lost to South Carolina in the semifinals.

Azzi Fudd will join former UConn teammate Paige Bueckers in Dallas

After the game, Fudd reacted to her college career being over. “A lot of emotions. I mean, obviously, this isn’t how I wanted my career at UConn to end, but these five years, I have so much to be grateful for,” Fudd told reporters earlier this month, per Josh Sanchez of The Big Lead. “I couldn’t have asked for better teammates, better coaches, a better experience. I’ll look back on college, and what I’m talking about is how this game, like I said, not how we wanted to end, but it defined us and what this team is, what this season was for us.

“So, I feel guilty, like I let the team down today, but a lot of gratitude, a lot of love, and just a lot that I’ll never be able to verbalize and thank the coaching staff, the teammates, the support staff, everyone from this program that supported me, touched me. I’ll never be able to really verbalize how much they meant to me.”

Fudd will now join her former UConn teammate, Paige Bueckers, in Dallas. In last year’s WNBA Draft, the Wings selected Bueckers at No. 1 overall. Fudd and Bueckers will lead a Dallas squad that is looking to make the playoffs for the first time since the 2023 season.