Will the NFL draft be reformed in the coming years? NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell presses with an idea.
Ligaboss Roger Goodell proposes to adjust the schedule in the NFL draft in the future.
The teams currently have ten minutes in the first round to make their choice. If a team does not manage to pick in time, the pick will be taken over by the next team.
Goodell does not assume that the teams really need so long. He wants to shorten the time.
At the “Pat McAfee Show”, the league boss said that he would like to see a shorter period of time between the picks in the first round. He brought into play for seven minutes, combined with a possible unique extension for every team that would give them a few minutes more time, for example when they work on a trade.
NFL DRAFT: Goodell wants to shorten the period between picks
“I thought out last night that we had to shorten it,” said Goodell. “Should we have time that we can save? I have come up with it now: seven minutes in the first round, but you can get two minutes extra if you need them, you can tell them, but then you can no longer get them for the rest of the draft. You get an extension.”
Goodell stated that the NFL teams in the first round are usually only six and a half minutes “on the clock” and that it would be better to standardize this time with the reservation that trades can take a little longer.
For many years, the teams even had 15 minutes to pick in the first round. In 2007 the time was shortened to ten minutes. Three years later, the NFL changed the draft format of two days to a three-day draft on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
After the ten minutes in the first round, the teams currently have seven minutes in the second round.
After that, you have five minutes in the third to sixth round and only four minutes in the seventh round.
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