From what I understand, they wait because if the rookie does something stupid and gets themselves hurt during the offseason and can't play, the team and the salary cap wouldn't be on the hook. And salaries are basically already determined according to draft slot, so it shouldn't take much time. Or some shit like that.
Crazy how cheap rookies are. Shitty veteran receivers get more money than that. Just goes to show why drafting well is so important in the NFL.
And yet so much money, really.
What does it mean to "report"? Rookies reported already and there is no news of what they are doing. Are they just hanging out at the facility playing dominoes?
Probably just meetings/working out and maybe some light individual on-field drills. I highly doubt there's anything competitive or intense going on.
Randall Cobb just got 9 million/year, so, yeah.
Thought I saw a picture yesterday of them on the field
I was hoping DC.com would have news but I haven't seen anything.
No there is nothing on the site
Yep and that's the way it should be instead of that ass backwards system they had up until about 10 years ago.
It really made draft picks less valuable when you think about it. A high draft pick was great but you were basically paying the guy like a top free agent. So the benefit of drafting well was sort of mitigated by the contract you had to give them.
Also the draft has always been kind of of a game of roulette. Tons of players have been labeled "safest player in the draft" or "can't miss player" yet a lot of those players still turn out to be busts.
Everyone but the few rookies who benefitted hated that old system.
