Thought Exercise: What if Draftees were UFA's straight out of college, how much would they be paid?

[nucci]

It should be an auction draft like fantasy football. Each team has a set amount of money to draft . 

[Simon Says]

12 hours ago, Chaos said:

Yes, so you are comparing signing someone like CJ Stroud vs someone like Derek Carr.  Who would you offer more too? 

It obviously depends on how much cap space you have. Teams have different philosophies and priorities but would still have needs to fill in this free agent frenzy.

The NFL players union would never agree  to this fantasy,but in the spirit of your new game; in this case,only QB- needy teams would compete for Stroud, not all 32 teams. 

I don't think GMs would be overly aggressive and reckless. 

 

[ddaryl]

Rich teams would get richer and poorer teams would be development teams for the rich teams

[Mr. WEO]

18 hours ago, Chaos said:

For example If you thought O'Cyrus Torrence was a better guard than Conner McGovern why would you offer Torrence less than McGovern? 

Its called a thought exercise for a reason. Its not a proposal to do away with the draft.   Basically trying to place a dollar value on the draft picks.  If the most anyone would offer Jack Campbell is $4 million per year, and somenoe was willing to offer Zay Flowers $8 million per year, you would have a pretty clear understanding of which of those two you would likely pick, to acquire on the same price rookie contract. 

 

The point is that you have seen Mcgovern play in the NFL.  Torrence hasn't proven his worth in the league. You can certainly choose to roll the dice and pay him second contract money as a rookie.  I wouldn't. 

12 hours ago, MJS said:

They offered them huge contracts before the rookie wage scale was bargained for.

 

Clearly, they don't want to do that anymore--not the owners nor the players union.  

[ColoradoBills]

Going back to the day before the rookie wage scale would be Chaos.