Can you tie up 60 million dollars for a 3-4 DE

A 3-4 End is certainly worth the #1 pick overall. You virtually always have at least two of them on the field at all times regardless of what package or formation they are in. Even if you stop running a 3-4, their size and skillsets put them right at home in any other defensive style you might want to run... They can play LDE, they can play 3-technique, and in some cases NT in a Tampa-2.

Go look at what Belichick spent on 3-4 DE's. He spent the #6 overall on Richard Seymour, Ty Warren with the #13th pick, Marquis Hill with a 2nd round pick, and resigned Jarvis Green for starter money to be the #3 rotiational guy.

As for Gholston... I dont understand why people think he's on steroids. He isnt huge for a DE/OLB, he's just very cut and appears to have a low body fat percentage. If he gains like 20 pound overnight and his face changes shape like Shawn Merriman, then there is room for speculation. Otherwise...eh.

 

wow, are you in MLB? The problem with your perspective is that under those circumstances you force all players to use drugs and hormones to be competitive. It's a young mans game that is why we have the draft every year. Old guys cycle out new guys take over.

 

simple: its a free market economy

a player is worth whatever someone is willing to pay him. if an owner wants to break the bank on an unproven rookie, then that is his choice.

 

nobody is forced to do anything under my perspective. i am just for a level playing field. and obviously, in this day, there is no way you can stop the use of some substances. so why not just make it safe and legal?

 

get gholston, case closed

 

You completely misunderstand.

The top three drafted players aren't paid $35 million guaranteed because the owners want to. They're paid $35 million guaranteed because the current CBA outlines draft conduct, including the general relative dollar value increase of each draft slot compared to the prior year's, as well as the maximum length of each contract that can be offered to a player drafted in a certain slot.

It's not a case of the owners willingly saying "I want to pay the number one overall pick $35 million dollars guaranteed." It's a case of the owners being forced to pay that sort of money due to contractual obligations between the NFL and the NFLPA.

Were it up to the owners, they would institute an NBA-like rookie salary cap and a rigidly pre-determined salary de-escalation structure for each successive drafted player.