[misterrob]

What's the minimum standard? They already have juniors coming out early and let's face it, requiring college degrees for football players is well...... impractical to say the least given the reason the universities recruited them there to begin with. A job that requires some level of education is fine but what does that have to do with football? The NFL loses on this basis.

I don't see the NFL winning on this long term. Clarett may wind up in court for two years or more (The NFL is a big time hitter when it comes to litigation) but eventually, they are going to have to accept underclassmen.

[Bikers4Bush]

Minimum standard is three years out of high school, period.

[discostu]

I think they have to be 21, maybe 20. It has nothing to do with if they went to college, there are players that never play at the college level instead getting their seasoning in the semi-pros.

The NFL better win. Letting kids into the NBA has turned it from a juggernaut threatening to become the #2 or #1 sport to a joke with thugs for athletes and "good" players dropping freethrows less often than batters hit fastballs.