[Bikers4Bush]

That's the problem. They are not competing employers they are all one entity. There is a certain amount of revenue sharing that goes on which ties them to one another more than it divides them.

[litany_of_lies]

"No one has a right to play in the NFL. No one."

Au contraire. If a team wishes to draft him (and all 30 would probably want him), and he is an adult (age-wise, clearly not head-wise in his case), he DOES have the right to be eligible for the draft. Keeping him out of the draft effectively denies him the right to play.

This kid is an unsavory character who has gotten and continues to get a lot of bad advice, but that doesn't change the fact that he has the physical tools to play in the NFL right now, and cannot be prevented from doing so. He would be, in theory, smarter to wait until he has another good year at OSU, assuming they would take him back in 2004, but OTOH he could also get seriously injured.

The NFL's best hope is to employ every legal stalling tactic ever invented, because they have NO case. Unless (and I doubt it), there is an age requirement in the NFLPA contract that is based on a lot of defensible studies of what might happen to 19 year-old running backs.