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A note from the office of The Chiefs GM...

Posted on June 19, 2010 at 11:14 AM.

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First - Once again I have outpaced my blogging and I am currently (in "real time") working through the pre-season games in 2012. I have completed all of my off-season activities, after wrapping 2011 (I LOVE Madden and Franchise mode), and will report that chronologically! But, in an effort to learn as much as I can about Madden and the NFL, both through the forums (OS of course) and through Googling information, upon doing a little more research into the NFL salary cap and contracts, I discovered the following:

Teams can sign rookies picked in the first half of the first round of the draft to a max 6-year contract.

Players from the second half of the first round can only be signed to a max 5-year contract.

Players taken after round one can only be signed to a max 4-year contract.

Rookie deals cannot be renegotiated in the first two years.

Without turning this into a debate about whether this should be in the game or not (it would be nice, but probably would have to be adjusted per every negotiated CBA), clearly the game will let you do things outside of these rules.

Again while researching how to play franchise mode I came across a very informative article that suggested, mainly because they'll sign for minimal cash, signing lower picks simply to 7-years at that minimum. If it turns out you made a decent potential/ovr pick, then you've got a long term, GREAT contract for a player that clearly would demand more when the time came.

So, with that said, please understand that I DID NOT discover this, unfortunately, until I had gone through another draft! For the record, I just HAPPENED to follow the rules with my first couple of picks, but did sign later picks to 6 and 7-year deals! Going forward, I will FOLLOW the rules as outlined by the NFL CBA, as it currently stands.

The source, by the way: Ask The Commish.com

Part of the fun of playing offline franchise, for me, is learning stuff like this!!!