2009 Rookies Unsigned

Training camp has officially started and some rookies are still a no show due to their contracts situation. It's surprising the teams actually care about how much money they spend in the rookies. Oh wait, it doesn't look like it. Paying them millions and still don't know if they will become a draft bust.

Players that were picked 1-10, 6 remain unsigned and a camp holdout.

• 3. Tyson Jackson DE, Kansas City Chiefs
  
• 4. Aaron Curry LB, Seattle Seahawks
  
• 6. Andre Smith OT, Cincinnati Bengals
  
• 8. Eugene Monroe OT, Jacksonville Jaguars
  
• 9. B.J Raji DT, Green Bay Packers
  
• 10. Micheal Crabtree WR, San Francisco 49ers
  

Players selected from 11-15, only 3 are unsigned.

• 11. Aaron Maybin DE, Buffalo Bills
  
• 12. Knowshon Moreno RB, Denver Broncos
  
• 14. Malcolm Jenkins DB, New Orleans Saints
  

The rest have all been signed to million dollar contracts and participating in their team camp. Let's get these top draft pick signed so they can show us if they're worth every penny!

The Easy Way Out Of Life

After seeing the performance of New York Yankees starter, CC Sabathia- It got me thinking about "big time contracts" in all of Major League sports (MLB,NFL,NBA,NHL etc.) and it's freaking crazy! Before reaching the pros, college. Free college. Not working for about an average of 10-18 years of your life. Millionaire. Cars. Mansion. Can it get any better? But should that money be wasted on something more useful and not make athletes multi-millionaires every year. Education maybe?

The normal way of going through life is finishing grade school and then heading off to college. Right? We make our parents pay the tuition and we would have to start working to help them off. But not sports athletes. Now all of us have had dreams of playing for the Yankees or your home town team. It's normal. But what about the people who do achieve those goals. Coming out of high school these "future stars" get scholarships from big name schools like Notre Dame, Stanford, USC, UM, any school! Some dont have to waste a single penny in books or normal stuff like that. Thats not fair! For someone that will most likely be there for only 3 years and dont even have to pay the univeristy back is great! But what about the regular students. Some can't even finish school because its so god damn expensive. So what? Everyone should become basketball players or soccer players? No.

In the 2008 NFL draft the Miami Dolphins selected linemen Jake Long for the first overall selection of the draft. Without playing a SINGLE down he agreed to a five-year, $57.75 million deal with $30 million guaranteed. Lucky enough he didn't turn into a "bust", but it is a big risk to pay so much money for a player that we are not sure that he will become one hell of a player.

We can say that general managers take the 'risk' when they sign a player. It's not like George Steinbrenner knew Carl Pavano would only play in 26 games after signing a four-year contract worth $39.95 million. Bad luck or bad judgment? We might never know. So the best thing to do in my opinion is just put a limit in a teams salary cap for they wont waste so much damn money in someone that has a fastpass through life!