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Originally Posted by Nittany Dodgers
The reason it would kill the 4th round is fairly obvious. Look at the talent on the current PS. There is hardly any. The only reason these picks are on a roster is because we specifically made the PS to give 4th rounders a home. When we expanded the draft to 4 rounds, we new 4th rounders had no shot of making the taxi squad, so we made the practice squad to give the deep deep players a place to stick around for up to 5 years. No team, unless their taxi squad is bare, is going to put a 3rd on the practice squad and a 4th on the taxi squad, that's just not going to happen regularly.
But, like most issues around here, my mind as well as your is probably already made up, so I'll let the rest of the league chatter about it.
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Ha very true. Like I said... nothing I'm gonna die over. Just seems like something taht we could work into the league and would only help improve the quality of teams.
I mean if you choose to essentially throw away a 4th round pick to stash a 3rd on PS, that's the downside. You wasted a pick.
What I see happening or how I would use it is this... 3rd round pick on someone actually WORTh developing and having sit around for 5 years. Since it the PS teh player REALLY HAS TO DEVELOP into a active roster player b/c once activated they can not be put on TS or PS again. The chance of that happening in teh 3rd are still very slim.
Then your 4th rounder is where you take your pot shots... sign a back up RB and give him a 3 or 2 year deal on your TS. If this late round player doesn't make noise in 2 or 3 years... they will most likely never make noise.
4th rounders aren't devalued very much... a team could still roster them on TS or PS and a side your are over looking is what the 4th round loses in value the 3rd more than meks up for with the talent you will be able to stash for 5 years to see if they pan out... especially after the new compensation system that will dole out mounds and mounds of 2nd round comps year after year.
In the end rosters will be better for it, IMO. As it is now 3rd rounders are developmental projects and 4th rounders are absolute crap shoots.
So what is the purpose of draft picks, TS, and PS? Is it to make better rosters for teams or solely to hope to hit a jack pot in the 4th (practially 5th round) of rookie drafts? I think the league would be bette rtaking the former viewpoint, rather than the latter.