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Originally Posted by Nittany Dodgers

I'm not sure how this would work exactly. If we add a 6th spot for a 2nd (or 3rd) or later pick, doesn't the round taken only come into an issue if the other 5 spots are taken by a higher pick? That is, if we allow a 6th spot for a 2nd or later pick, in reality we're just adding a 6th spot, since a team would have to have 5 first rounders on their DS and want to add another 1st rounder in order for the round limitation to matter. I don't see that happening anytime soon. If a team has six 1st round draft picks on their DS and none are worth activating, they can have as many DS spots if they want if that's all the better they can draft. :box

Looking over the roster app, unless I missed some, I see that only 3 4th round selections made rosters this year. I could see some sort of DS roster exemption made for 4th round selections. The mad tinkerer in me is thinking a whole bunch of crazy thoughts that could make this work. Originally my thought was that we could give one exemption per year, up to a total of 3, for 4th round selections that could be kept on the DS in addition to the 5, but we would limit their available contracts to say 3 years which would not count towards the DS contract year cap. This would allow us each to hold onto our 4th round selections, picks that every other team passed on multiple times, free and clear and if they happened to produce early in their careers, we'd get the benifits.

Then I thought what we could do is change these 4th rounders to the real DS, since that is really what it would be. All players we were waiting around for to develop. Say a 3 player DS squad, unlimited contract years, but only adding one player a year. Then change our DS to a practice squad, and introducing some people's ideas from last year of limited movement from the practice squad to the active roster in cases of emergencies (I've got ideas on how to implement that too).

Then I remembered Mike saying he wanted this to be a quiet off season. So I'll stop there.

I have no problems with som DS debate.. I could be convinced to institute a "practice squad (PS) and Development Squad (DS)" type system, where DS players are locked there unless promoted, but PS guys could move up or down based on some type of predefined need.

As for the quiest off-season... having the debates is half the fun in the Frenzy!