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As some 2003 draft choices and their agents have discovered in painful fashion the past few weeks, it may be harder to squeeze anything more than just modest increases out of this year's "flat" rookie pool allocation than it is to extract blood from a stone.
For a second straight spring the rookie pool -- essentially a cap within the salary cap and basically the maximum amount that a team can invest on draft choices and undrafted free agents -- is set at just shy of $119 million. The leavening of the rookie allocation is the byproduct of a bilateral decision by the league and the NFL Players Association to slow the revenues to younger players and direct more compensation toward veterans, in part by programs like the playing-time incentive pool instituted for the '02 season....
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For a second straight spring the rookie pool -- essentially a cap within the salary cap and basically the maximum amount that a team can invest on draft choices and undrafted free agents -- is set at just shy of $119 million. The leavening of the rookie allocation is the byproduct of a bilateral decision by the league and the NFL Players Association to slow the revenues to younger players and direct more compensation toward veterans, in part by programs like the playing-time incentive pool instituted for the '02 season....
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