N/S: 49ers accuse Jets of tampering (rumor)

LSSpam said
It's not even a question of him slipping in the draft. Even if he's selected #7 overall next year (the spot he thinks he deserved this year...as if playing for Oakland was some sort of honor :covri:) he can't recoup the lost money from the first year.

The bump in salary he could conceivably earn by re-entering the draft cannot outweigh losing the first year of a top 10 contract. He'd have to go like #1 overall or something, and even then I'm not confident about that without actually doing the math.

He absolutely will lose money by re-entering the draft, there's no way around it.

That's a good point too - the lost money from not playing.

But I think Kiper is out of his mind when he says Crabtree is still a first rounder. He has no concept of how GM's have to view the business side of football. It's a lot of money and the single most important acquisition of the offseason (generally). The risk factor alone takes him out of the first round for most teams - especially well run teams.