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Gable's stock continues to rise. That is bound to happen when you are the Heavy-Weight NCAA Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist. He is a trophy fish from the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes.

Buffalo head coach Sean McDermott who was a former wrestler himself reached out to Gable Steveson.

Should he play for PJ Fleck and the Gophers, or go straight to the pros with Buffalo? Sean McDermott should know a thing or two about wrestlers. That might be an attractive option.

Gable's problem is going to be which path to take. There is a pot of gold waiting for him regardless. My hunch is that there are probably more options coming his way.

He definitely is putting the Minnesota Gophers on the map. If he decides to play football for the Gophers, imagine the huge PR for the program.

www.syracuse.com

Buffalo Bills have reached out to Gable Steveson, Olympic gold medalist wrestler

If Steveson wants to try his hand at playing in the NFL, the Bills seem interested.
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Buffalo Bills reached out to Olympic gold medalist wrestler Gable Steveson

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doesn’t he need to go through the draft? You can’t just sign college athletes at random I don’t think.
 



UpAndUnder43 said:
doesn’t he need to go through the draft? You can’t just sign college athletes at random I don’t think.
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As was said, not true. The draft is just the more likely to success path, gets you guaranteed level of money, etc.
 






IF someone choose to take a shot at football.

I can see the advantage of the NFL where you're focused on football and not playing school.

At the same time NFL teams aren't known for putting much ... if ANY time into developing raw players...
 

^^ they can't put dedicated coach on him to spend the necessary 1-on-1 intensive coaching time needed. Nor can the Gophers, at this stage of the game, frankly.

Hence why I suggested that if he really is serious, he hire his own personal coach (like a retired NFL DL) and do a solid month of intensive position training, to build a foundation.
 

Gable Steveson, notGabe Stevenson . Got it. :oops:
 
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MplsGopher said:
As was said, not true. The draft is just the more likely to success path, gets you guaranteed level of money, etc.
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So any player can just sign with any team? I do not think that is the case at all.
 



UpAndUnder43 said:
So any player can just sign with any team? I do not think that is the case at all.
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Every spring, NFL teams invite all kinds of guys you've never heard of, especially from smaller division schools (DIII, DII, NAIA), to spring camps. There they evaluate to see if any of those guys are worth a further look in the fall. A lot of them don't get invited back for fall, true, but some do. I'm pretty sure at least those guys invited back for fall have to sign some kind of minimal contract.

What were thinking the case was, and why?


I just don't think the draft is any kind of gatekeeper for joining the NFLPA and signing a contract with a club. I'm happy to be corrected here. Maybe the NFLPA website has language that contradicts me.
 

MplsGopher said:
Every spring, NFL teams invite all kinds of guys you've never heard of, especially from smaller division schools (DIII, DII, NAIA), to spring camps. There they evaluate to see if any of those guys are worth a further look in the fall. A lot of them don't get invited back for fall, true, but some do. I'm pretty sure at least those guys invited back for fall have to sign some kind of minimal contract.

What were thinking the case was, and why?


I just don't think the draft is any kind of gatekeeper for joining the NFLPA and signing a contract with a club. I'm happy to be corrected here. Maybe the NFLPA website has language that contradicts me.
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You have to get drafted or be an undrafted free agent. You can’t just join a team. The guys you’re referring to were signed as undrafted FAs.
 


TNGophfan said:
In essence, since he's completed 3 years of school, he is an undrafted free agent and could sign anywhere.
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Not if he didn’t enter the draft. Otherwise any football player after 3 years could just sign with a team of their choice.
 


UpAndUnder43 said:
Not if he didn’t enter the draft. Otherwise any football player after 3 years could just sign with a team of their choice.
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Yes they can. Any team after 3 years. Does not matter if you "enter" the draft. You are eligible to sign with a club at any time after your 3 years of college have passed. Please look it up.
Think of a guy that served in military and came back home and wanted to try pro football. He could sign with anyone.
Or, guys who never went to college, but have played in Europe or somewhere else, total free agents.
 


matt said:
GABLE
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gable Dan Steveson, sorta named after Danny Mack gable

on a recent Sirius interview they asked if he had any surprise offers. He responded “movies” “I like the rock”

i‘d enjoy him having his own branding instead of gable. There’s a lot of Iowa in gable. Maybe GDS? For the Olympic he did use his full name, gable Dan Steveson.

mark hall once said “I want to be the face of Minnesota wrestling”, then went to PSU. Gable Dan Steveson IS the face of minnesota wrestling.

i Think he’s more likely to be the next rock than the next Aaron Donald
 

TNGophfan said:
Yes they can. Any team after 3 years. Does not matter if you "enter" the draft. You are eligible to sign with a club at any time after your 3 years of college have passed. Please look it up.
Think of a guy that served in military and came back home and wanted to try pro football. He could sign with anyone.
Or, guys who never went to college, but have played in Europe or somewhere else, total free agents.
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So why does the draft exist and guys don’t just sign with whatever team they want? Like Trevor Lawrence couldn’t have just decided to sign with the Patriots. It doesn’t work that way.
 

UpAndUnder43 said:
So why does the draft exist and guys don’t just sign with whatever team they want? Like Trevor Lawrence couldn’t have just decided to sign with the Patriots. It doesn’t work that way.
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It should work that way. In a salary cap league why not?
 

Wally said:
It should work that way. In a salary cap league why not?
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It should, but it doesn’t, hence the draft. American sports leagues are pretty backwards. Same with our amateur model. But that is an entirely different story.
 

UpAndUnder43 said:
So why does the draft exist and guys don’t just sign with whatever team they want? Like Trevor Lawrence couldn’t have just decided to sign with the Patriots. It doesn’t work that way.
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Gable could have been drafted but wasn't, hence, free agent. Lawrence was drafted, hence, not free agent.
 

As to some kind of question/argument like "why don't the top 50 players just band together and refuse to enter the draft, then they can sign with any team that offers them".

Like I said, it's a very regulated system of control on not just spots but also dollars. I would not be surprised if there is a relatively low maximum amount of a contract you can sign as an UFA.

Rookie contracts automatically last your first four years in the league, with an option for the fifth year. And they're restricted on money. That's why you don't really get rich until your first free-agent contract, after year 4/5.


So point being, I'm sure you can make far, far more money on that first contract as a first round draft pick, than as a UFA. Otherwise, probably like you say, they perhaps would do that.


From Google search:

The introduction of a rookie wage scale & salary cap in the last CBA between the league & players’ association in 2011 set a fixed level for rookie contracts depending on where that player was drafted - it’s highest for first & second round picks, then drops down until the rookie minimum ($480K per season) applies for late rounders and undrafted free agents. Furthermore the contract length is different for draftees compared undrafted players - first round picks sign 4-year deals with a fifth round team option, second through seventh rounders also get 4-year deals but without the option, but undrafted deals are for a max of three years (and are often just one or two years). Those tend to have very little in the way of guaranteed money (in the form of signing bonuses) either, whereas the top level deals are partly or even wholly guaranteed at signing.
 
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Well, after all that ....... turns out I was wrong and you were right @UpAndUnder43

The NFLPA requires everyone to enter the draft. Even if they miss the deadline to register for the main draft in April, they're still required to be subject to the Supplemental draft in July (hasn't been held the last two years).


You can find lots and lots of responses on Google of people asking these exact questions and people explaining that the latest CBA requires being subject to the draft.

Apologies!
 

If so, my apologies as well. However, numerous articles out there quoting Gable as saying that "a number of NFL teams have reached out to my agent". So not sure what to make of that.
 

TNGophfan said:
If so, my apologies as well. However, numerous articles out there quoting Gable as saying that "a number of NFL teams have reached out to my agent". So not sure what to make of that.
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The one bypass to the draft is if you didn’t play football in college. If you did, you must enter the draft.
 

TNGophfan said:
Gable could have been drafted but wasn't, hence, free agent. Lawrence was drafted, hence, not free agent.
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This is still fundamentally wrong. Lawrence entered the draft. Gable didnt.
 

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