The picks are less predictable than you are probably imagining and that's what makes the draft so exciting. Lots of war rooms scrambling to make deals, trading players and picks in real time.
Hi guys. Here are a few answers to some of your questions. The NFL draft usually takes place end of April. Minimum salary in the NFL is just over 700k a year. Teams do and will make deals even during the draft. If a team needs a QB and has a specific guy in mind, they might trade their 1st round pick to a team looking for say a linebacker so that team can pick ahead of another team looking for a linebacker as long as that wouldn't put them behind another team looking for a QB. Of course they will get some compensation for that. maybe an established player or a 2nd or 3rd round pick or maybe even cash. Some guys who might not be drafted may get invited to training camp as free agents or may play a season in canada or somewhere in hopes of having a good enough season there to get the attention of some NFL teams for next year. The players like Kurt Warner are few and far between. Noone took any notice of him until he got an invite to training camp. He was electric. Just so good. You never know. Even in baseball. Mike Piazza was a catcher in MLB. He got picked in like the 56th round of the baseball draft, and only then because Tommy Lasorda of the Dodgers Organization was a friend of Mike's father. So he spent that late round pick on him. Mike then got traded to Miami and before he even reported there he got traded again to the Mets. He is now retired and is in the Hall of Fame. you just never know what a guy will become.
Kirk Warner was the first and so far only Quarterback not to be drafted to win the Super Bowl. After a couple of years of being a backup, his team's starter got hurt in the preseason. Warner took over and became the first Quarterback to throw at least three touchdown pass in each of his first three starts. He was on the cover on a Magazine with the title "Who is this guy?". He won MVP that year, and lead his team to win the Super Bowl, in which he was also MVP of Super Bowl. A movie came out a year ago about it. He went back to the Super Bowl two years later but lost to Brady and the Patriots winning their first. A few years later he lost the starting job. Played a year for the NY Giants, until Eli Manning was ready to take over. Then he went to Arizona. Lost the starting job there to another first round pick. With his career seemingly over, he won the starting job back and lead Arizona to the Super Bowl (They didn't win), becoming the first Quarterback to take two teams to the Super Bowl. After another successful season he finally retired.
In 2004 Eli Manning got picked 1st overall by the San Diego Chargers, but did not want to play for them so they made a deal with the Giants, who picked Philip Rivers 4th overall. They basically traded their draft QBs.
I wish they'd watch those NFL Network videos about how NFL stadiums prepare for game day. I swear, if they did a video on every team I'd probably watch them all.
It’s ridiculously difficult to make it into the NFL. Thousands try. About 200 are actually drafted; and around 100 undrafted players are also signed. Less than 2% of college players are selected in the draft, and only a few get the chance to play on the field. If the player doesn’t make it onto a team’s active roster, he can be assigned to the practice squad.
The NFL Draft is usually sometime in April. You can only enter the draft once, after that you are a free agent (you can go to canadian football league, usfl, be on the practice squad for a team, or 'get a regular' job), it's just all about waiting on a phone call, cause free agents are invited to tryout for teams every week of the season. The draft is not as predictable, teams normally don't pick expected or needed players, mainly cause they don't know what other teams will do, if they really like a player they go for it, and you never know how the individual interviews went (a lot is put on those). Teams can go over the salary cap, but the must pay a penalty every year they are over, until certain contracts end and they are under the cap, they also can't sign any players (except roster emergency (below minimum roster), called exemptions for minimum pay). Teams have draft reserve cash, so they still can sign at least 4 draft picks, they will have to release or trade others (if they can).
Oh man do I love draft day the whole process is so much fun. Scouting players, building draft boards, putting out mock drafts, getting brand new play makers on your team. In 2014 my Raiders drafted QB Derek Carr in the 2nd round out of my home town Fresno State and he even has the same birthday as me. He gave me some of my favorite memories and now we're moving on from him because of a shit head coach (also the play caller).
All American sports use a draft. The worst teams pick first, the best teams pick last. This is why American sports teams have a lot of parity. In the NFL, a poor performance team is usually a matter of poor coaching, or injury. One reason a NFL career is around 3 years, is not due to injury, it's because of the draft. A Rookie contract is 3 years long, after that 3 years, a star will resign with his team or another team. After the rookie contract the second contract is for a lot more money. If a team can draft someone from college they save money by drafting someone , rather than pay a big contract.
It was Burreaux ..... Cajun surnames generally had the eaux, for example Babineaux, Boudreaux and Thibodeaux. Today, sometimes normal words that end with the long O get the eaux for effect. Geaux Tigers ! or Geaux Cajuns Laissez les bons temps rouler (Let the good times roll)
When you draft a player you own that players rights. So another team cant sign a player you just drafted. Nfl you can’t pay a transfer fee and just buy the player from another team. You have to “trade” for any player that is under contract. Normally trades involve future draft picks; or other players under contract can be swapped. So if you have a player that is on the last year of his contract, a team will often try trade him before he becomes a free agent, if the player has indicated he is unwilling to resign. Most player trades are for future draft picks. An example of this is, the Denver Broncos gave up a bunch of draft picks for Russell Wilson this year to the Seahawks. The broncos were expected to be good and the Seahawks bad. But the broncos were terrible this year and the Seahawks made the playoffs. So the Seahawks got Denver’s first round pick which based off the record of the broncos, that draft pick ends up being like number 4 overall. That’s an example of a trade the backfired for the team who got the player and gave up their first round pick. The team with the worst record gets the first pick in each round. The team that wins the superbowl gets the last pick in each round.
If you think about it, there are a ton of colleges, and just to be picked as a bench warmer is quite the feat. It's saying even as a bench warmer you are one of the top football players in the whole country.
There was a guy some years back up showed up so wasted he offered his potential Head Coach (and notable right wing, church goer) a joint to celebrate his forthcoming millions. The word got out and he's probably smoking up a storm somewhere - minus the millions. Character counts because no coach and no owner wants to constantly be a headline about his wild players.
The veteran minimum in the NFL is about 500k. Rookie players have a separate wage scale depending on where they are picked. All rookie deals are 4 years, first overall pick will get like 10mil perseason and the last guy in the draft will make like 700k a year. There are also practice squad players make like 200-500k. Practice squad players can play during the season but only twice before they have to be added to the regular roster. Numbers are per year.
I believe agents are limited to around 5% of the contract. But agents can set up other businesses that cater to the players, such as handling their taxes, which are very complicated because they pay state income tax, in states that have income tax, in each place they play during the year. I took a course on this in law school, but that was about 30 years ago.
Predicting picks is nearly impossible. Usually experts can guess the first 4 or 5 picks correctly, but after that, it starts coming out of left field. Adding in draft day trades, you might think your team is about to draft a certain player, but then you get an alert that they’ve traded the pick to a different team. Also, teams often put out fake information to try to trick other teams. They might leak info that they really like a certain player that they have no intension of drafting. Conversely, they might try to sandbag a player they secretly hope falls to them. Teams are very advanced with these tactics, and insider info that gets leaked might be true or it might be false. If an American football game is boots on the ground warfare, the draft is the intelligence and espionage aspect to war. It’s often more exciting than the actual games.
In the MLB you have a luxury tax which allows you to go over the Pay cap but the NFL has a set salary cap that is league wide they oftentimes have to cut players they don't want to because of it it also helps to create good free agents every year to keep parody among the teams at the top in the NFL
You are correct however the NFL does not have guaranteed contracts so you can rip up a contract and sign a new one at any time which can alter the AAV towards the salary cap.
Last year, incoming rookies made a minimum of USD705,000. That's supposed to rise gradually to reach a million or so by 2030. And there's no guarantee a player is selected in the draft. Those who aren't may sign on as free agents. **The draft usually takes place over a few days in late April. It's televised, and I always watch the first round live.
Trades happen all the time during the draft. A lot of the time the GMs have already talked to other teams about potential picks they might be willing to move if they do not see a player they want and already have a good idea of who to call if they decide they want to trade back, and get a extra late round pick or two, or trade up to get a player that they didn't expect to still be on the board. DK Metcalf is a good example of that. Seattle traded up to get the last pick in the 2nd round of the draft to pick DK because they didn't expect him to still be available there and knew he would be gone by the time they picked next in the 3rd round.
The NFL makes their money through massive TV contracts worth billions amongst other things but majority TV contracts. Amazon alone is paying billions just to air one game a week.
Just like the NFL drafts pro players, universities offer scholarships to specific high school kids. A player doesn't just decide what collage to pick. He has to commit to a universities that offered him a scholarship. The five star high school recruits get offered by the top schools and they pick from the best schools. Usually they pick Alabama, Ohio State, or Georgia. The same schools generally get the best recruiting class every year. Other schools string together good draft classes but the are really about six top universities that get the blue chip players.
12:33 College coaches offer highschool players they like scholarships. Then the player must pick a university from his offers. Some players get a 100 offers some only 3 or even 1.
Pantera actually does the Goal song for the dallas stars. They still use it till this day everytime they score. Dime and Vinnie were huge cowboy fans though. Vinnie always had a hat or shirt on.
Years ago a Sports Illustrated story outlined how most players were either bankrupt or in serious financial trouble five years after leaving the NFL. Consequently the NFL has put in measures to mitigate the embarrassment, including giving money awareness/management classes. Average career of an NFL player is 4 years. Min salary 2022 is $705k but after 40%+ tax and agent fees they tend to overspend especially considering many NFL players are unsophisticated from the inner cities.
In 1974 the Pittsburgh Steelers drafted 4 players who would all go on to win 4 Superbowls and get inducted into the Hall of Fame. They also signed an undrafted college player who also would win 4 SB and go to the hall of fame.
How many Yinzers does it take to change a lightbulb? they don't change it, they sit in the dark and talk about how good the last one was. 1974 c'mon man.
@@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883 My point was to show how the draft could be fortunate for both the teams and the players (including undrafted ones). It was not to brag about the Steeler's past glory. Mind your business, there are 30 other reasons (teams) as to why you hate your team!
Pantera is from Dallas-Ft Worth area. Well, Phil is from New Orleans, but the rest are from DFW area. If you dont get picked, you are à free agent. You cant enter draft again. The majority of eligible players never play in nfl. Many make practice squad and preseason rosters, but never play in regular season.
@11:40 the weird questions are to see if you can keep your cool and think we'll under unusual circumstances. Comes in handy when you have someone talking trash to you when the games on the line and you don't need to be doing anything dumb.
If you declare for the draft but don't get drafted, you are a free agent for any team to pickup, and you cannot go back into the draft the next year. Baseball is different, as they can be drafted out of high school. Guys will be drafted but if they don't sign, they can go in a later draft. Many guys will get drafted in like the 20th round, because everyone assumes they will go to college. Then after a few years of college they go in the draft again, and get picked in the 2nd or 3rd round.
This guy should have included more detail about how the teams are seeded in the draft (Daz is correct about the worst record gets first pick, etc.) but there are also trades that happen as well as previous season trades where a team gave away its next season pick (whatever number that is). Also, your contract is negotiated by where you were picked (first round, vs. second round, etc.).
Agents typically get 7% and not everyone that declares for the draft gets drafted… some sign on after the draft as free agents and some get opportunities to try out for a team during the spring!!
Although extremely rare, if you never sign a deal with anybody, you could in theory be eligible to be drafted the next year. One player, I don't remember who, back in the day was drafted by Tampa Bay. He refused to sign a deal with them. Tampa refused to trade his rights away. A year later, Tampa's rights to him expired and he was drafted again I think by Oakland. But this guy was a first round player, so teams would still be interested in him after a year of not playing. I can't imagine a team drafting a player that wasn't drafted in a previous draft, especially after a year of not playing.
Order for picking is team with worst record to SB winner. Rules exist for teams with the same records. Draft is great fun because teams do not show their hand before they pick, so sometimes they pick a player that no one expected them to take given the consensus outside opinion of what that team's position needs are. In the first round each team has ten minutes to pick, so that can be ten minutes to come to agreement within the war room or also ten minutes to make a trade with another team. Teams will trade up to get a position better than where they are, or even trade down for a lesser position if they think they can still get what they need at the lower position and obtain some additional draft picks in that or future drafts, or a current player on the team with which they are trading. It can be really quite dramatic and attending fans will let the teams know whether they like the moves/decisions or not with cheers or jeers/boos. It is funny, then, too.
In the NFL the draft order goes from the worst team the prior year to the best. Unfortunately it can promote pretty bad teams to just tank totally in order to get the number one overall pick. To avoid this, the NBA does a lottery pick with the worst teams getting more ballots in the box and then the draft order is essentially picked out of a hat. So if you're the worst team or one of the worst few teams you have a much greater chance of drafting first but it's not guaranteed.
even practice squad guys make 500k, the league minimum for being on the 53 man roster is 660,000 a year and many get signing bonuses which are guaranteed cash
Practice squad do not make $500K....practice squad players with less than 2 years experience make $11,500 per week or $207,000 per 18 games/season....more than 2 years make minimum $277,000 per 18/season or a max of $$358,200 per 18/season
@@marvinlawrence most practice squad players get a cash signing bonus when they first sign, so for the majority of these guys in their first year out of college they make close to 500k. I don't know exactly and I'm sure you're right, but it's not like these guys are Minor League Baseball players making 30k a year.
The draft is in April. Drafting players is pretty difficult. There have been a lot of number one picks that turn out to be busts. Especially QBs. And occasionally there will be a sixth round pick or free agent who becomes a star like Brady and Kurt Warner. You can't go over the salary cap and just pay a fine in the NFL. And contracts are not guaranteed. You can sign a 100 million dollar contract and if you are a bust the team can cut or trade you. Teams also will trade draft picks for current players and future draft picks so they can move up and get a better draft position.
-I think as of 2022, league minimum according to the NFLPA collective bargaining agreement was 705,000 a season and slots up depending on how many years you have in the league. Inactive players (practice squad players) drop down to $430,000 and slots up depending on years in the league. -Not everyone in the draft has college eligibility left, some have used all of their four years and have no other recourse. -Basketball has a lottery of the worst teams. The team with the worst record gets more "ping pong" balls in the hopper and so on. They get slotted on where they fall in the lottery with the other teams that made it to the playoffs getting slotted after them by who got ousted first up until the Champion who picks last. ua-cam.com/video/T2IVM8hBvHE/v-deo.html (Last years lottery) - Daz, you can negotiate to move up, but you will, depending on the slot pay a pretty penny in cash, future draft picks, etc for it. It's not just as easy as exchanging picks...
Kurt Warner is a cool story cuz he was literally working at a convenience store as a stock boy and bag boy and then later on he went on to win a Superbowl ring
One thing to keep in mind is that college football is bigger than pro ball here, and it's also much older than the pro game. It's exciting to see where these great college players end up, so the draft becomes a huge spectator event that unites college and pro fans. Another thing to remember is that between 6th grade and the NFL level, football is almost entirely a scholastic endeavor. There is no high level semi-pro or minor league developmental system - it goes peewee league to middle school, to high school, to college, and from there to the pro level. Although nowadays there is spring pro football, which is akin to minor league football, but it has so few teams and such a short season that it ends up being extremely limited as a developmental league.
What level you get drafted (1st rd, 2nd rd, etc.) is one story, but your actual success comes from performance. Every team has star players that were drafted low, or undrafted, but they can work their way into star (high paying) contracts. Tom Brady was a 6th rd player.
Many players in NFL weren't drafted, and many that were drafted fade out of the league in a couple of years or go to practice squad due to lack of performance ( either physical or mental ). All others tend to go to Canadian League and to the new XFL and USFL.
Minimum salary is around 700k. Average is around 3mil. Most of the players that leave college early for the draft is pretty much a sure thing...only the most talented leave early
$705,000 How do NFL rookies get paid? Rookies from the incoming 2022 NFL Draft class will make a minimum $705,000 this year. This marks a $45,000 increase from last year, a trend the league agreed to continue through 2030 when the minimum rookie contract value will reach $1,065,000.
Guys that leave early can still finish college, they just cannot play college football anymore. Many guys will finish over the first couple years after they get drafted.
NFL has a hard cap which means that teams can't go over the cap for that year. The soft cap is for the NBA where going over the cap means you have to pay what is called a luxury tax. NFL teams can maneuver around the cap though by spreading expenditures onto future seasons. For example, if a player has a 20 mill cap hit but the team only has 10 mill in available cap space, they can restructure the contract so that the extra 10 mill applies to next year's cap.
Football is worst team gets first place, less than 20 games makes all the games matter. Basketball is known for tanking because one player can change a whole team, so they do a lottery system where the worst 3 teams get a 20% chance of getting the number one overall pick
Unless they changed it, the league minimum is $500K a year. The thing about the draft is the higher you are drafted, the bigger the bonus money is. NFL contracts are not guaranteed money. Yes, the superstars now demand guaranteed money in their contracts, but before it was all about the draft. 2022 1st pick signed a 4-year deal for $41 million and a signing bonus because he was the 1st pick of $24 million. Sadly, a high percentage of NFL players are broke after 5 years of leaving the league.
Hundreds of players don’t get drafted but yea they renounce their college FOOTBALL eligibility they can still go to class and get a degree they just can’t play anymore
There is a movement to end combines because the NFL uses it to drive down draft value. They make money off the TV coverage but not sure players get paid.
There's a weird scenario where a player doesn't want to play for the team that drafts them. They can (usually only as a threat) sit out a year when the team loses the right to sign them and they can be drafted again.
Minimum salary was 705,000 and then every year you play the minimum goes up so a second year players minimum then goes up to 825,000, third year guaranteed minimum goes up to 895,000 so on
I spent $80 on a rare, prototype Philip Rivers card and was sure he be NFL drafted but not sure how high. Watched the draft like it was a bet. I was relieved he was picked #4 and later traded for #1. A guy offered me $3100 for that same 1-of-1 card a few years ago and I said no. These days people like me put money down on college and draft cards, hoping a player will make it big. Their "first cards" are often worth more than their rookie cards which are mass-produced 10000x more than their first cards.
Football drafts are usually better to because there's quality players until the 3rd or 4th round and even beyond that you can find some great players, I love hockey but generally outside of the 1st round its not the same. In fact only half of first round picks ever make an nhl lineup and that 50% counts guys who played 1 game or a stretch of games and were never called up again
There's a vet minimum and the money depends on the position. Free agents can reset the market even though they're players their former team chose to move on from. Christian Kirk did that to the WR class this past off season. He's good but not highest paid WR good but teams are negotiating for his services. There's also a rookie salary cap now. Draft busts like JaMarcus Russell brought the cap into the conversation getting one of the largest guaranteed contract and being absolute shit. Before the rookie salary cap there was rarely a trade for draft picks between teams. There was too much money at stake and a draft bust could set your team back a few years. You would basically have to be married to your #1 pick overall and spend much more resources trying to get him going. Not everyone gets drafted anyone who doesn't becomes a rookie free agent and is free to sign with any team. The moments after the draft are very busy signing these players and some of them have gone on to be pro bowlers and hall of famers.
if a team goes over the salary cap in the NFL they can be fined. have draft picks taken away. or have player contracts voided. in other words, if a team goes over the cap they get penalized. and they have to fix the infraction and get themselves back under the cap. MLB is the only league i know of where you can go over, and stay over by paying a fine.
Agents usually make money by getting deals done for their talent. It's usually 10-15% of any deal they get for their talent. But anything outside of that they dont touch. So if lets say i'm in hte NBA and my agent gets me a 500k deal. he gets 50k out of that. Which imo is very fair since he got the deal done.
Just started the video.. I imagine its not as glamourous as you might think. Compared to how much the NBA is paid. imagine signing A Deal for 1M when you could be getting 100MIL lol
The picks are less predictable than you are probably imagining and that's what makes the draft so exciting. Lots of war rooms scrambling to make deals, trading players and picks in real time.
It's really great for the spectators. I also like looking up all the team draft grades afterward.
I used to be pretty good at getting draft picks right then the rookie salary cap happened and teams became much more comfortable trading up.
As a giants fan daz u should remember when Eli Manning got drafted by San Diego and refused to go. Ended up working out for him with the giants
He pulled an Elway.
@charleenjackson8165 kind of. Elway legitimately could have gone and played baseball, whereas Eli just told the chargers to get bent
Yes, a career .500 record is working out lol
Hi guys. Here are a few answers to some of your questions. The NFL draft usually takes place end of April. Minimum salary in the NFL is just over 700k a year. Teams do and will make deals even during the draft. If a team needs a QB and has a specific guy in mind, they might trade their 1st round pick to a team looking for say a linebacker so that team can pick ahead of another team looking for a linebacker as long as that wouldn't put them behind another team looking for a QB. Of course they will get some compensation for that. maybe an established player or a 2nd or 3rd round pick or maybe even cash. Some guys who might not be drafted may get invited to training camp as free agents or may play a season in canada or somewhere in hopes of having a good enough season there to get the attention of some NFL teams for next year. The players like Kurt Warner are few and far between. Noone took any notice of him until he got an invite to training camp. He was electric. Just so good. You never know. Even in baseball. Mike Piazza was a catcher in MLB. He got picked in like the 56th round of the baseball draft, and only then because Tommy Lasorda of the Dodgers Organization was a friend of Mike's father. So he spent that late round pick on him. Mike then got traded to Miami and before he even reported there he got traded again to the Mets. He is now retired and is in the Hall of Fame. you just never know what a guy will become.
I love it that the NFL started hosting the draft in different cities. It used to be only in NYC. This year it’s located in Kansas City, Missouri.
Kirk Warner was the first and so far only Quarterback not to be drafted to win the Super Bowl. After a couple of years of being a backup, his team's starter got hurt in the preseason. Warner took over and became the first Quarterback to throw at least three touchdown pass in each of his first three starts. He was on the cover on a Magazine with the title "Who is this guy?". He won MVP that year, and lead his team to win the Super Bowl, in which he was also MVP of Super Bowl. A movie came out a year ago about it. He went back to the Super Bowl two years later but lost to Brady and the Patriots winning their first. A few years later he lost the starting job. Played a year for the NY Giants, until Eli Manning was ready to take over. Then he went to Arizona. Lost the starting job there to another first round pick. With his career seemingly over, he won the starting job back and lead Arizona to the Super Bowl (They didn't win), becoming the first Quarterback to take two teams to the Super Bowl. After another successful season he finally retired.
In 2004 Eli Manning got picked 1st overall by the San Diego Chargers, but did not want to play for them so they made a deal with the Giants, who picked Philip Rivers 4th overall. They basically traded their draft QBs.
Yay, more NFL stuff! 👏 Rest up before the big game, Blokes, it’s gonna be a long night.
I wish they'd watch those NFL Network videos about how NFL stadiums prepare for game day. I swear, if they did a video on every team I'd probably watch them all.
It’s ridiculously difficult to make it into the NFL. Thousands try. About 200 are actually drafted; and around 100 undrafted players are also signed. Less than 2% of college players are selected in the draft, and only a few get the chance to play on the field. If the player doesn’t make it onto a team’s active roster, he can be assigned to the practice squad.
The NFL Draft is usually sometime in April.
You can only enter the draft once, after that you are a free agent (you can go to canadian football league, usfl, be on the practice squad for a team, or 'get a regular' job), it's just all about waiting on a phone call, cause free agents are invited to tryout for teams every week of the season.
The draft is not as predictable, teams normally don't pick expected or needed players, mainly cause they don't know what other teams will do, if they really like a player they go for it, and you never know how the individual interviews went (a lot is put on those).
Teams can go over the salary cap, but the must pay a penalty every year they are over, until certain contracts end and they are under the cap, they also can't sign any players (except roster emergency (below minimum roster), called exemptions for minimum pay). Teams have draft reserve cash, so they still can sign at least 4 draft picks, they will have to release or trade others (if they can).
I like watching my favorite team's 17 games, the playoffs, and draft night 1. I absolutely love all 3.
Oh man do I love draft day the whole process is so much fun. Scouting players, building draft boards, putting out mock drafts, getting brand new play makers on your team. In 2014 my Raiders drafted QB Derek Carr in the 2nd round out of my home town Fresno State and he even has the same birthday as me. He gave me some of my favorite memories and now we're moving on from him because of a shit head coach (also the play caller).
All American sports use a draft. The worst teams pick first, the best teams pick last. This is why American sports teams have a lot of parity. In the NFL, a poor performance team is usually a matter of poor coaching, or injury. One reason a NFL career is around 3 years, is not due to injury, it's because of the draft. A Rookie contract is 3 years long, after that 3 years, a star will resign with his team or another team. After the rookie contract the second contract is for a lot more money. If a team can draft someone from college they save money by drafting someone , rather than pay a big contract.
It was Burreaux .....
Cajun surnames generally had the eaux, for example Babineaux, Boudreaux and Thibodeaux.
Today, sometimes normal words that end with the long O get the eaux for effect.
Geaux Tigers ! or Geaux Cajuns
Laissez les bons temps rouler (Let the good times roll)
Don't forget Delhomme or Hebert.
@@ryanjacobson2508 huh?
11:10 “Do you find your mother attractive”
Zach Wilson: …………………
Most NFL fans watch the draft or pay attention to it to some degree. It's not just a thing watched by select groups of super fans.
When you draft a player you own that players rights. So another team cant sign a player you just drafted. Nfl you can’t pay a transfer fee and just buy the player from another team. You have to “trade” for any player that is under contract. Normally trades involve future draft picks; or other players under contract can be swapped. So if you have a player that is on the last year of his contract, a team will often try trade him before he becomes a free agent, if the player has indicated he is unwilling to resign. Most player trades are for future draft picks. An example of this is, the Denver Broncos gave up a bunch of draft picks for Russell Wilson this year to the Seahawks. The broncos were expected to be good and the Seahawks bad. But the broncos were terrible this year and the Seahawks made the playoffs. So the Seahawks got Denver’s first round pick which based off the record of the broncos, that draft pick ends up being like number 4 overall. That’s an example of a trade the backfired for the team who got the player and gave up their first round pick. The team with the worst record gets the first pick in each round. The team that wins the superbowl gets the last pick in each round.
If you think about it, there are a ton of colleges, and just to be picked as a bench warmer is quite the feat. It's saying even as a bench warmer you are one of the top football players in the whole country.
There was a guy some years back up showed up so wasted he offered his potential Head Coach (and notable right wing, church goer) a joint to celebrate his forthcoming millions. The word got out and he's probably smoking up a storm somewhere - minus the millions. Character counts because no coach and no owner wants to constantly be a headline about his wild players.
The veteran minimum in the NFL is about 500k.
Rookie players have a separate wage scale depending on where they are picked. All rookie deals are 4 years, first overall pick will get like 10mil perseason and the last guy in the draft will make like 700k a year.
There are also practice squad players make like 200-500k. Practice squad players can play during the season but only twice before they have to be added to the regular roster.
Numbers are per year.
I believe agents are limited to around 5% of the contract. But agents can set up other businesses that cater to the players, such as handling their taxes, which are very complicated because they pay state income tax, in states that have income tax, in each place they play during the year. I took a course on this in law school, but that was about 30 years ago.
I think most big agencies take 3% but of course they have hundreds of clients so I imagine it adds up.
Predicting picks is nearly impossible. Usually experts can guess the first 4 or 5 picks correctly, but after that, it starts coming out of left field. Adding in draft day trades, you might think your team is about to draft a certain player, but then you get an alert that they’ve traded the pick to a different team.
Also, teams often put out fake information to try to trick other teams. They might leak info that they really like a certain player that they have no intension of drafting. Conversely, they might try to sandbag a player they secretly hope falls to them.
Teams are very advanced with these tactics, and insider info that gets leaked might be true or it might be false.
If an American football game is boots on the ground warfare, the draft is the intelligence and espionage aspect to war. It’s often more exciting than the actual games.
In the MLB you have a luxury tax which allows you to go over the Pay cap but the NFL has a set salary cap that is league wide they oftentimes have to cut players they don't want to because of it it also helps to create good free agents every year to keep parody among the teams at the top in the NFL
You are correct however the NFL does not have guaranteed contracts so you can rip up a contract and sign a new one at any time which can alter the AAV towards the salary cap.
When my grandfather got drafted it wasn't as fancy as this. He just got a gun and new pair of boots.
11:10 “What’s your murder weapon of choice?”
Aaron Hernandez: “That’s a good question”
Last year, incoming rookies made a minimum of USD705,000. That's supposed to rise gradually to reach a million or so by 2030. And there's no guarantee a player is selected in the draft. Those who aren't may sign on as free agents. **The draft usually takes place over a few days in late April. It's televised, and I always watch the first round live.
Trades happen all the time during the draft. A lot of the time the GMs have already talked to other teams about potential picks they might be willing to move if they do not see a player they want and already have a good idea of who to call if they decide they want to trade back, and get a extra late round pick or two, or trade up to get a player that they didn't expect to still be on the board. DK Metcalf is a good example of that. Seattle traded up to get the last pick in the 2nd round of the draft to pick DK because they didn't expect him to still be available there and knew he would be gone by the time they picked next in the 3rd round.
The NFL makes their money through massive TV contracts worth billions amongst other things but majority TV contracts. Amazon alone is paying billions just to air one game a week.
The NFL minimum salary is $705k this year. It goes up by like 40 or 50k every year.
The NFL Draft Is Literally Real Life Fantasy Football For Billionaires😂……it’s fun 🎉 for all the right reasons
Just like the NFL drafts pro players, universities offer scholarships to specific high school kids. A player doesn't just decide what collage to pick. He has to commit to a universities that offered him a scholarship. The five star high school recruits get offered by the top schools and they pick from the best schools. Usually they pick Alabama, Ohio State, or Georgia. The same schools generally get the best recruiting class every year. Other schools string together good draft classes but the are really about six top universities that get the blue chip players.
12:33 College coaches offer highschool players they like scholarships.
Then the player must pick a university from his offers. Some players get a 100 offers some only 3 or even 1.
Pantera actually does the Goal song for the dallas stars. They still use it till this day everytime they score. Dime and Vinnie were huge cowboy fans though. Vinnie always had a hat or shirt on.
Years ago a Sports Illustrated story outlined how most players were either bankrupt or in serious financial trouble five years after leaving the NFL. Consequently the NFL has put in measures to mitigate the embarrassment, including giving money awareness/management classes.
Average career of an NFL player is 4 years. Min salary 2022 is $705k but after 40%+ tax and agent fees they tend to overspend especially considering many NFL players are unsophisticated from the inner cities.
In 1974 the Pittsburgh Steelers drafted 4 players who would all go on to win 4 Superbowls and get inducted into the Hall of Fame. They also signed an undrafted college player who also would win 4 SB and go to the hall of fame.
How many Yinzers does it take to change a lightbulb?
they don't change it, they sit in the dark and talk about how good the last one was. 1974 c'mon man.
@@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883 My point was to show how the draft could be fortunate for both the teams and the players (including undrafted ones). It was not to brag about the Steeler's past glory. Mind your business, there are 30 other reasons (teams) as to why you hate your team!
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i know. Go Ravens.
Also depends on the spots you have been drafted For How Much Money the Team can offer you for your Rookies contract
Pantera is from Dallas-Ft Worth area. Well, Phil is from New Orleans, but the rest are from DFW area.
If you dont get picked, you are à free agent. You cant enter draft again. The majority of eligible players never play in nfl. Many make practice squad and preseason rosters, but never play in regular season.
@11:40 the weird questions are to see if you can keep your cool and think we'll under unusual circumstances. Comes in handy when you have someone talking trash to you when the games on the line and you don't need to be doing anything dumb.
If you declare for the draft but don't get drafted, you are a free agent for any team to pickup, and you cannot go back into the draft the next year. Baseball is different, as they can be drafted out of high school. Guys will be drafted but if they don't sign, they can go in a later draft. Many guys will get drafted in like the 20th round, because everyone assumes they will go to college. Then after a few years of college they go in the draft again, and get picked in the 2nd or 3rd round.
This guy should have included more detail about how the teams are seeded in the draft (Daz is correct about the worst record gets first pick, etc.) but there are also trades that happen as well as previous season trades where a team gave away its next season pick (whatever number that is). Also, your contract is negotiated by where you were picked (first round, vs. second round, etc.).
Agents typically get 7% and not everyone that declares for the draft gets drafted… some sign on after the draft as free agents and some get opportunities to try out for a team during the spring!!
Although extremely rare, if you never sign a deal with anybody, you could in theory be eligible to be drafted the next year. One player, I don't remember who, back in the day was drafted by Tampa Bay. He refused to sign a deal with them. Tampa refused to trade his rights away. A year later, Tampa's rights to him expired and he was drafted again I think by Oakland. But this guy was a first round player, so teams would still be interested in him after a year of not playing. I can't imagine a team drafting a player that wasn't drafted in a previous draft, especially after a year of not playing.
You need to watch the video of top 10 undrafted players! So good!
Order for picking is team with worst record to SB winner. Rules exist for teams with the same records. Draft is great fun because teams do not show their hand before they pick, so sometimes they pick a player that no one expected them to take given the consensus outside opinion of what that team's position needs are. In the first round each team has ten minutes to pick, so that can be ten minutes to come to agreement within the war room or also ten minutes to make a trade with another team. Teams will trade up to get a position better than where they are, or even trade down for a lesser position if they think they can still get what they need at the lower position and obtain some additional draft picks in that or future drafts, or a current player on the team with which they are trading. It can be really quite dramatic and attending fans will let the teams know whether they like the moves/decisions or not with cheers or jeers/boos. It is funny, then, too.
In the NFL the draft order goes from the worst team the prior year to the best. Unfortunately it can promote pretty bad teams to just tank totally in order to get the number one overall pick. To avoid this, the NBA does a lottery pick with the worst teams getting more ballots in the box and then the draft order is essentially picked out of a hat. So if you're the worst team or one of the worst few teams you have a much greater chance of drafting first but it's not guaranteed.
even practice squad guys make 500k, the league minimum for being on the 53 man roster is 660,000 a year and many get signing bonuses which are guaranteed cash
Practice squad do not make $500K....practice squad players with less than 2 years experience make $11,500 per week or $207,000 per 18 games/season....more than 2 years make minimum $277,000 per 18/season or a max of $$358,200 per 18/season
@@marvinlawrence most practice squad players get a cash signing bonus when they first sign, so for the majority of these guys in their first year out of college they make close to 500k. I don't know exactly and I'm sure you're right, but it's not like these guys are Minor League Baseball players making 30k a year.
The draft is in April. Drafting players is pretty difficult. There have been a lot of number one picks that turn out to be busts. Especially QBs. And occasionally there will be a sixth round pick or free agent who becomes a star like Brady and Kurt Warner. You can't go over the salary cap and just pay a fine in the NFL. And contracts are not guaranteed. You can sign a 100 million dollar contract and if you are a bust the team can cut or trade you. Teams also will trade draft picks for current players and future draft picks so they can move up and get a better draft position.
NFL agents aren’t allowed to collect more than 3% of a players team contract, but collect a higher negotiated % of endorsement contracts.
-I think as of 2022, league minimum according to the NFLPA collective bargaining agreement was 705,000 a season and slots up depending on how many years you have in the league. Inactive players (practice squad players) drop down to $430,000 and slots up depending on years in the league.
-Not everyone in the draft has college eligibility left, some have used all of their four years and have no other recourse.
-Basketball has a lottery of the worst teams. The team with the worst record gets more "ping pong" balls in the hopper and so on. They get slotted on where they fall in the lottery with the other teams that made it to the playoffs getting slotted after them by who got ousted first up until the Champion who picks last.
ua-cam.com/video/T2IVM8hBvHE/v-deo.html (Last years lottery)
- Daz, you can negotiate to move up, but you will, depending on the slot pay a pretty penny in cash, future draft picks, etc for it. It's not just as easy as exchanging picks...
Alabama getting L's from across the pond 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Kurt Warner was also an Arena Football QB before he was in the NFL
The draft is April 27th - April 29th on ESPN
Kurt Warner is a cool story cuz he was literally working at a convenience store as a stock boy and bag boy and then later on he went on to win a Superbowl ring
One thing to keep in mind is that college football is bigger than pro ball here, and it's also much older than the pro game. It's exciting to see where these great college players end up, so the draft becomes a huge spectator event that unites college and pro fans.
Another thing to remember is that between 6th grade and the NFL level, football is almost entirely a scholastic endeavor. There is no high level semi-pro or minor league developmental system - it goes peewee league to middle school, to high school, to college, and from there to the pro level. Although nowadays there is spring pro football, which is akin to minor league football, but it has so few teams and such a short season that it ends up being extremely limited as a developmental league.
What level you get drafted (1st rd, 2nd rd, etc.) is one story, but your actual success comes from performance. Every team has star players that were drafted low, or undrafted, but they can work their way into star (high paying) contracts. Tom Brady was a 6th rd player.
Many players in NFL weren't drafted, and many that were drafted fade out of the league in a couple of years or go to practice squad due to lack of performance ( either physical or mental ). All others tend to go to Canadian League and to the new XFL and USFL.
Daz knows his football. Very impressive for a Brit👍👍
After the Bowl make sure you guys check out the Super Bowl Mic’d Up video later this week
Yes! I hope someone sends it to them.
Minimum salary is around 700k. Average is around 3mil. Most of the players that leave college early for the draft is pretty much a sure thing...only the most talented leave early
The backup kicker is generally the punter, and vice versa. Not enough roster spots for multiple kickers.
$705,000
How do NFL rookies get paid? Rookies from the incoming 2022 NFL Draft class will make a minimum $705,000 this year. This marks a $45,000 increase from last year, a trend the league agreed to continue through 2030 when the minimum rookie contract value will reach $1,065,000.
Guys that leave early can still finish college, they just cannot play college football anymore. Many guys will finish over the first couple years after they get drafted.
NFL has a hard cap which means that teams can't go over the cap for that year. The soft cap is for the NBA where going over the cap means you have to pay what is called a luxury tax. NFL teams can maneuver around the cap though by spreading expenditures onto future seasons. For example, if a player has a 20 mill cap hit but the team only has 10 mill in available cap space, they can restructure the contract so that the extra 10 mill applies to next year's cap.
Football is worst team gets first place, less than 20 games makes all the games matter. Basketball is known for tanking because one player can change a whole team, so they do a lottery system where the worst 3 teams get a 20% chance of getting the number one overall pick
Definitely do more videos like this
Unless they changed it, the league minimum is $500K a year. The thing about the draft is the higher you are drafted, the bigger the bonus money is. NFL contracts are not guaranteed money. Yes, the superstars now demand guaranteed money in their contracts, but before it was all about the draft. 2022 1st pick signed a 4-year deal for $41 million and a signing bonus because he was the 1st pick of $24 million. Sadly, a high percentage of NFL players are broke after 5 years of leaving the league.
Hundreds of players don’t get drafted but yea they renounce their college FOOTBALL eligibility they can still go to class and get a degree they just can’t play anymore
There is a movement to end combines because the NFL uses it to drive down draft value. They make money off the TV coverage but not sure players get paid.
Minimum wage in the NFL for 1 year is $500,000
Pantera did the intro sing for the Dallas Stars NHL team.
There's a weird scenario where a player doesn't want to play for the team that drafts them. They can (usually only as a threat) sit out a year when the team loses the right to sign them and they can be drafted again.
NFL league minimum is around $585k a yr .
20:20 - Steve Francis in the 1999 NBA Draft. Check it out.
Minimum salary was 705,000 and then every year you play the minimum goes up so a second year players minimum then goes up to 825,000, third year guaranteed minimum goes up to 895,000 so on
The picks traded are designated by year and round
league minimum salary is around $500k i think. i keep seeing different numbers in the 400-600k range.
I spent $80 on a rare, prototype Philip Rivers card and was sure he be NFL drafted but not sure how high. Watched the draft like it was a bet. I was relieved he was picked #4 and later traded for #1. A guy offered me $3100 for that same 1-of-1 card a few years ago and I said no. These days people like me put money down on college and draft cards, hoping a player will make it big. Their "first cards" are often worth more than their rookie cards which are mass-produced 10000x more than their first cards.
you look up the NBA draft. It is similar but it looks slightly different.
Kurt Warner was undrafted , yet he’s in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Football drafts are usually better to because there's quality players until the 3rd or 4th round and even beyond that you can find some great players, I love hockey but generally outside of the 1st round its not the same. In fact only half of first round picks ever make an nhl lineup and that 50% counts guys who played 1 game or a stretch of games and were never called up again
I’m sure the NFL draft gets a bigger tv viewings then the NBA finals 🤣
hey guys watch the movie "draft day" with kevin costner... it's not at all like real life, but it's still a good watch.
Kurt Warner only won 1 Superbowl. Played in 3 though. Pretty sure he was stocking groceries for a bit before getting signed.
the NFL Draft is at the end of April yearly
Ya’ll should react to UK prospects for NFL combine.
Not drafted, but competing for a spot on a team. "Top UK prospects take on international NFL combine".
There's a vet minimum and the money depends on the position. Free agents can reset the market even though they're players their former team chose to move on from. Christian Kirk did that to the WR class this past off season. He's good but not highest paid WR good but teams are negotiating for his services. There's also a rookie salary cap now. Draft busts like JaMarcus Russell brought the cap into the conversation getting one of the largest guaranteed contract and being absolute shit. Before the rookie salary cap there was rarely a trade for draft picks between teams. There was too much money at stake and a draft bust could set your team back a few years. You would basically have to be married to your #1 pick overall and spend much more resources trying to get him going. Not everyone gets drafted anyone who doesn't becomes a rookie free agent and is free to sign with any team. The moments after the draft are very busy signing these players and some of them have gone on to be pro bowlers and hall of famers.
Christian Kirk*
if a team goes over the salary cap in the NFL they can be fined. have draft picks taken away. or have player contracts voided. in other words, if a team goes over the cap they get penalized. and they have to fix the infraction and get themselves back under the cap. MLB is the only league i know of where you can go over, and stay over by paying a fine.
Agents usually make money by getting deals done for their talent. It's usually 10-15% of any deal they get for their talent. But anything outside of that they dont touch. So if lets say i'm in hte NBA and my agent gets me a 500k deal. he gets 50k out of that. Which imo is very fair since he got the deal done.
Yes their Draft day trade For highest picks cost more to trade up
Just started the video.. I imagine its not as glamourous as you might think. Compared to how much the NBA is paid. imagine signing A Deal for 1M when you could be getting 100MIL lol
Draft next Thursday early Friday for y'all
Jerry Jones has a reputation for micromanaging every aspect of the team and ruining the Cowboys for the last 25 years.
Wow Dave has hair
The league minimum for this year was 710k … that’s the least amount they can earn
Daz is fucking smart in the sports scene
The NBA Draft is determined by a draft lottery
You aren’t set because your money isn’t guaranteed by your contract.
Yeah teams trade all up and down the draft while it’s going it’s very likely to happen at the top of this years draft for the QB prospects
Alabama most likely puts more players in the draft, so yeah, Moms looking like a snack
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