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For those of you who did not play NFL Head Coach 09

Posted on June 21, 2011 at 09:52 PM.

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Pro Days:

A lot of colleges will hold Pro Days. Here you will be presented with a list of a few schools that are holding Pro Days at that time, and you can choose one of them to go to. A school might have anywhere from 1 to 8 players working out that day and if you go, you will get a little more information unlocked on all of those players that participated regardless of their position.

Personal Scouting:

This is where you have to go to unlock the most important value of them all, the potential rating. Depending upon your GM, you will have the ability to personally scout one player at one position on these personal scouting days. The ability of your GM determines just how many of these personal scouting tries you actually get.

Mock Draft:

Mel Kiper would do the first two rounds of a Mock Draft and you could access it once he made it available. Just like in real life, it didn't nail every pick for every team, but I think it was a nice touch.

Draft Board:

You could arrange your own draft board any way you wanted it. The one thing this really seemed to influence was the GM's suggestion of whom to pick. Whomever was the top pick on your draft board, that's usually whom they would suggest.

The Draft:

Each team has 10 minutes to make a pick in the first 2 rounds, 7 minutes for the 3rd and 4th, then 5 minutes for the rest of the draft. There was a "pick the pick" option where you could earn a few brownie points with your owner if you managed to pick the player that the current team was going to draft. You could trade up for draft picks, or trade down as many times as you like. You weren't limited to only 10 draft picks.

After the draft:

You have the opportunity to bid on 5 UDFA rookies. Say there is a sleeper you scouted and you think he will be a good player, but he goes undrafted. Well, here is your chance to pick him up. You can place bids on 5 players and if no other teams are interested, you get to sign them. If other teams are interested, they will place bids on them as well. You will have to make a higher bid in order to get that player to come to your team.