SSOG
Moderator
That fund the league established is hardly righting the economic wrongs, here. Most of the guys who get performance pay are looking at five figures.The fact that every team talks about building through the draft, the fact that every expert talks about how important it is to have rookies available as cheap labor, the fact that teams that draft well always outperform teams that do well in free agency... all of this demonstrates pretty clearly that rookies, on the whole, are grossly underpaid. For every one example to the contrary (say, Jamarcus Russell), there are a dozen examples of the rule, ranging from guys like Chris Johnson, Elvis Dumervil, and Vincent Jackson all the way down to the guys who wind up being 45th man on the roster.agree with Tony 100%. Put in a reasonable rookie salary range, make their contract for four years - the league already established a fund to enhance the pay of overproducing rookies...there is no doubt that rookie compensation at the top end of the draft is ridiculously high, IMO.