Sentences with phrase «draft choice»

As a fifth - round draft choice in 1981, he had accepted a $ 150,000, three - year package — about average.

We'd trade all older players for draft choices.

Top draft choices get the pub, but that doesn't always equal production.

I'm not trying for immediate success by trading draft choices for veterans who might be able to help me for a couple of years.

He's a former 4th round draft choice with talent that might finally be coming through.

Under no circumstance do you trade up and give away additional draft choices to do it.

The rest were draft choices ranging from the second to the seventh rounds — not exactly bonus babies.

After all, does he expect the Bills to pay him a fortune when the team has to worry about 45 veterans and 16 other draft choices?

That is the no brainer draft choice with this pick.

It's instantly satisfying to see that you made smart drafting choices, and allows players to instantly play with talented players online.

Make anyone signing him give up two first round draft choices.

Middle linebacker Zach Thomas is one of the mutts, a 5» 11», 235 - pound fireplug who was a fifth - round draft choice in» 96.

It isn't just athletes who fail to live up to their early potential — if you are a «high draft choice» in life, you have a responsibility to focus your gifts.

It was true: Russell White, the pudgy, former Cal tailback and 1993 third - round draft choice of the Los Angeles Rams, who reported to camp looking like the Nutty Professor, had been waived that morning.

I don't think we need to spend a 1st round draft choice on a prospective 1st baseman.

The Dolphins gave up their first draft choice in 1971 for Shula, which makes him only half as valuable as Dave Parks, a wide receiver signed by the Saints in 1968 after he had played out his option with the San Francisco 49ers.

If they had not cut Varette, they would have been eligible for draft choice compensation if he signed with another team.

By the San Francisco 49ers, quarterback JEFF KEMP, 27, to the Seattle Seahawks, for an undisclosed draft choice.

Dodger Manager Tom Lasorda soaks his fingers in it to relieve the pain of arthritis, as do the Orioles» Jim Palmer and Portland State's prospective high NFL draft choice, Quarterback Neil Lomax.

A Chicago native, Joe Niego was a star college basketball player and the second draft choice of the NBA's Houston Rockets.

New York reached its nadir in 1975 when Coach Charley Winner, thinking his team was just a few players away from playoff contention, traded his first, fourth and sixth draft choices for three defensive linemen, two of whom now are out of football.

The Texans finally made their first draft choice at 8:35 p.m. Friday, and even though they had more pressing needs at offensive tackle and tight end, general manager Brian Gaine decided Stanford free safety Justin Reid was too good to pass up.

Center Bryan Trottier and top draft choice Mike Bossy, a 75 - goal scorer for the Laval (Quebec) juniors last season, seem to be the only Islander forwards who don't specialize in hitting goal posts or shooting the puck over the net and into the crowd, but Bossy's checking deficiencies may keep him on the bench in many games.

article: «Another team could have signed him to an offer sheet with the Vikings getting a second - round draft choice if they didn't match, but Easton instead decided to sign with the Vikings.»

A winner will be chosen based on the performance of each team's three stock draft choices (not including dividends) from the closing price on Apr. 26, 2018, through the 2019 Super Bowl on Feb. 3, 2019.

Jan 04,2016... Pittsburgh, often a contender but never a champion, puts no great store in high - priced draft choices...

The Chargers need to accumulate quality draft choices.

The Patriots have had some blown draft choices in the past few years, but they haven't suffered because they stockpile picks better than any team in football.

They were just poor draft choices.

Revel in the better draft choices!

Texas, with four losses in its last five efforts, has scheduled top draft choice David Clyde for a June 27 debut against Minnesota.

TRADED: Itinerant NFL Back JOE DON LOONEY, from the Detroit Lions to the Washington Redskins for a middle draft choice, two weeks after Lion Coach Harry Gilmer suspended him for refusing to reenter a game against Atlanta.

He had noticed, a year ago, that he was starting and that first - round draft choice Chris Jackson from LSU was coming off the bench.

* All first - and second - year professionals, as well as all unsigned draft choices, will be exempt from selection (and will not be counted toward their club's applicable protection limits).

Called «a wasted draft choice and a waste of money,» by Ryan, Fridge has been fat out of luck with the defensive coordinator.

The terms offered to White as a second - round draft choice seem quite fair.

A little - known draft choice has made a name for himself, thanks in part to a 40 - minute routine focused on speed

The Canucks are loaded with good young forwards, particularly Dennis Ververgaert, Don Lever, Rick Blight and top draft choice Jere Gillis, but new General Manager Jake Milford will have to trade at least one of them in order to correct glaring weaknesses on defense and in goal.

Since he took over three years ago, Atlanta hasn't dealt away a single draft choice, while trading for seven belonging to other teams.

Most No. 1 draft choices idly burnish their Rolls - Royces during the off - season, but Milwaukee's Kent Benson is struggling to polish his game in Los Angeles gyms

One suggestion, SI has learned, was that teams that harshly criticize the refereeing should forfeit draft choices.

MEATHEAD NO. 1 DRAFT CHOICE WRECKS CAR IN 3 A.M. CRASH!

As we have seen — even if you pick low — often times there isnt a QB worthy draft choice there.

However, NHL President John Ziegler saw fit to remind the Rangers of the rules against tampering, and after signing Shero to a reported $ 250,000 - a-year, five - year contract, the Rangers gave the Flyers a first - round draft choice as compensation.

We've had 16 nonwinning seasons in our last 20, but if we make the right draft choices, and they develop, we'll win.»

There were eight Steeler draft choices, past and present, in the training camp wideout corps, and all the club needs is three who'll hold up for the season — Lipps; possibly last year's second - rounder, Wayne Capers, who's big and fast; and possibly Stallworth, if he can stay healthy.

The center fielder was selected in the first round (23rd overall) by the Detroit Tigers to become the highest local draft choice since 1998.

Eventually the left corner might go to No. 1 draft choice Darrell Green, a shrimp at 5» 8» but a tough hitter and probably the fastest man ever to wear a Skins uniform.