[smith288]

I dont think the NFL will go the way of the NBA...

NBA isnt as rough and tumble as the NFL. Lots of these little kids will get beat down to a pulp in practices long before making it on a field Sunday afternoons. Some will sneak through and become great, but most will suck and ruin their lives by being scholastically stupid and injured.

[Enterprise]

I pretty much agree with your post. The NFL will draft players who appear to be ready, but are not. And those players will probably get injured or ground down, as you suggest, when they might have been successful with a couple more years of college. The league loses a good potential player, then goes on to the next not-ready for the NFL player, his career ends early also, and the NFL, through time and attrition, grinds itself into total mediocrity, and eventually, becomes like the NBA. Someday we may hear the cry - BRING BACK THE XFL!