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Originally Posted by blades29
Crabtree is holding out too. Agent, im assuming, is the issue. Heyward- Bey signed a 5 year deal, so we should start seeing other receivers signing... WAY too much money given to these unproven rooks. The NFL needs to implement a rookie cap or something to that effect. Crock of ****.
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Absolutely. There have been so many duds, especially at quarterback, who made off with 30 something million and didnt do jack sh!t but fuk their team over. There should be a base salary, depending on where you were drafted, and you earn your money through incentives.
I did find this article that says that the rookie caps may be coming.
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A rookie salary cap is coming in the NFL, but not before its draft this weekend once again makes helpless dopes of everyone at the top of the order, with the exception of the unproven players who have yet to play one down and their agents.
In 2007, JaMarcus Russell got $31 million guaranteed. The year before, Vince Young, $25.74 million. The year before that, Alex Smith, $24 million. Take it back to 1998, and another do-nothing quarterback, Ryan Leaf, received the largest signing bonus ever for a rookie, $11.25 million, when he was taken one pick after Peyton Manning.
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http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/43600772.html