The draft makes for brilliant television and maintains interest in the league even during the offseason. But it\u2019s worth considering other options<\/p>\n
There is something funky about the draft being one of the NFL\u2019s marquee events. At root, it\u2019s a man stepping to the podium, being booed<\/a> and reading names. The NFL still dominates Sundays \u2026 and Mondays \u2026 and Thursdays \u2026 and playoff Saturdays during the season; the draft allows the league to gobble up the offseason months too. But as interest continues to grow, there has been relatively little pushback from those who make the draft work: the prospects, particularly those slated to go at the top of the first round.<\/p>\n Think about it. Your reward for being one of the best college athletes in the country is to wind up on one of the worst rosters in the NFL, typically one beset by mismanagement at the top, iffy coaching or a third-rate roster. Quarterbacks can<\/em> win with teams that draft them No 1 overall \u2013 Peyton Manning and Troy Aikman are a couple of examples \u2013 but more often than not, the top quarterbacks end up in a spot where they\u2019re likely to fail. There is a reason that Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield found success after <\/em>they were let go by the teams that selected them in the top three. Environment is king \u2013 having no say over where they start their career puts the best prospects at the whims of blundering franchises. Is there a system that can maintain the interest and parity the league craves, while handing some agency to players over their careers \u2013 or at least not reward floundering franchises?<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The draft makes for brilliant television and maintains interest in the league even during the offseason. But it\u2019s worth considering other options There is something funky about the draft being one of the NFL\u2019s marquee events. At root, it\u2019s a man stepping to the podium, being booed and reading names. The NFL still dominates Sundays … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}