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Originally Posted by ThunderChief
Unless there's a Peyton Manning type franchise player sitting there in the draft, it doesn't pay (except the player and agent) to draft high and put your franchise in cap hell. All this could and might be remedied with a rook salary cap as part of the next CBA but there will be a fight of sorts before that happens.
Interesting to note that the majority of the players, the vets, want a rook salary cap so more of those $$$ can filter down to them so, for that main reason, look for the movement to gain traction. At present, a team is better off drafting lower unless of course, there are genuine can't miss types at the top of the draft.
How often does that happen, you ask? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but I'd say the beauty is there at the top only so often, like good vintage wines.
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The problem with that logic is that you don't know who the Mannings are and who the Leafs are when you're drafting them. Manning wasn't a consensus no. 1 pick either (link below), so even in that year there wasn't a "sure" thing.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...2/ai_20201257/