Maybe the league should just sack up and pay for a developmental program instead of outsourcing it to colleges.

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Oh I get that. But that's only because the NCAA is so popular. If every college sport was played by legit student athletes who weren't recruits or there solely to play a their particular sport it'd be a whole new story.

What?

First you state that the NFL should have a developmental league. Been there, done that, failed spectacularly.

Then you say it's because college football is so popular, yet none of those leagues competed with college football because the games were played in the Spring.

Say what?

Then why would you need such a rule as is being proposed? Burfict went to the combine and was still undrafted.

You don't know for sure about anyone.

I'm not sticking up for NE but they will have to count his signing bonus from his contract extension he signed last year as "dead money" over the next 2 seasons.