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Well I think the salaries are way too high across the board.

Why pay close to 900 for a rookie QB, when I can pick up a FA that will be twice as productive for 1/3 the cost. Even if I have the patience to wait 3 years for the QB to develop, where is the reward?

WR's are also a complete joke... Anquan Boldin (a 2nd round pick BTW, who was never considered in the top of the receiving class) may be the only player in 2 rookie WR classes that is worth his salary. Paying a Stallworth, or Lelie, or even an Andre Johnson from this past years class in the 650-750 range is a joke, especially when far more productive WR's are sold in free agency for much less.

Even at RB, we had 2 unheard of FA's come out of nowhere this year (Davis and Johnson), and they sold in the 900 range on the open market... IMO, they were just as big a risk as a draft pick, but at least teams knew to some degree what they were getting. Why pay an undrafted rookie RB over 1000 cb's? Only 1 rookie RB that was drafted in the past 2 years has emerged as a true stud (Portis), and he has shown that he may be injury prone because he's too small. He's also a product of the Denver system.

I think the salaries of rookies just make the whole idea of building through the draft a joke, even with the DS. The fact is it's easier to build through free agency, and we've made the value of rookie picks almost worthless IMO. High draft picks should be helping the teams at the bottom who are trying to rebuld, not hurting them.

IMO, if the scale was lower across the board, and a team hit on a stud, then good for them. At least they gain soe flexibility to rebuild their team.

As for the argument that the draft class was weak, I don't buy it. This years class MAY have a stud RB, MAY... but there is a good possibility that no RB even gets taken in the 1st round of the NFL draft. As for the rookie QB's... big deal, they take at least 3 years to develop... by that time you've got at most 2 years left on a contract that would already be paying the player top 7 money. What's the point.

I stand by my contention for the past 2 years that we've devalued the rookie draft (by having salaries set too high) so much so that the value of picks is almost worthless.