{"id":1869,"date":"2011-04-14T09:20:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T17:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2011-04-14T09:20:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T17:20:34","slug":"nfl-moves-to-curb-rookie-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/nfl-moves-to-curb-rookie-salaries\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Moves to Curb Rookie Salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/russell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1870\" title=\"russell\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/russell-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/russell-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/russell-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/russell-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/russell-55x55.jpg 55w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The NFL has proposed to cut back on rookie salaries and create five year  contracts for incoming NFL rookies. The move is being discussed as a  potential salary distribution to veteran players and added player  benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The amount of money that went to first round NFL Draft picks last year  was $525 million in guaranteed payments. The move is being discussed to  avoid the potential for free agent busts such as JaMarcus Russell. Over  the last ten years of the NFL Draft, teams have spent more than $2  billion in guaranteed salaries on players that have not played a down of  football.<\/p>\n<p>Understandably agents are opposed to the new rules and this will be a  major sticking point in the negotiations moving forward. There are also  rules regarding holdouts that the NFL owners wish to implement. If a  rookie holds out they will only be entitled to a set amount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL has proposed to cut back on rookie salaries and create five year contracts for incoming NFL rookies. The move is being discussed as a potential salary distribution to veteran players and added player&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[1030,150,1029],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","category-sports-recreation","tag-cuts","tag-nfl","tag-rookie-salary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/1873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}