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Inside The Huddle

2019 Draft Preview Extravaganza!

Inside The Huddle

Sky Sports

Sports, Football, News, Sports News

4.4637 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Neil Reynolds & Jeff Reinebold are joined by Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio & Chris Simms, NFL Network Draft Guru Bucky Brooks. the Around the NFL Heroes, Patriots legend Willie McGinest & Hall of Fame QB Kurt Warner to preview the 2019 NFL Draft

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0:00.0

Go Inside the Huddlerwood, Sky Sports, Neil Reynolds and Jeff Rimbaud.

0:10.0

Hello and welcome to a very special Inside the Huddles.

0:14.0

We preview the 2019 NFL draft.

0:17.0

It takes place in Nashville, Tennessee, Thursday, Friday and Saturday as 254 of the best college.

0:24.1

Football players get chosen by the 32 NFL teams.

0:27.3

Helping me break it all down is my regular partner, Jeff Reimbold and Jeff, as we look at the draft.

0:33.8

As we go through the off season, really, we look at free agency and we recognize so many of the names, but the draft possibly has greater importance.

0:41.9

How important is the NFL draft to teams?

0:44.7

I think, Neil, you don't have to look any farther than what transpired in Seattle last week to understand the importance of the draft.

0:53.4

What's happened today in the economics of putting a team together inside the salary cap,

0:58.4

when you pay a quarterback like Russell Wilson got paid and he deserves to be paid that way

1:04.3

because that's the market value, you have to be able to backload or backfill with rookie contracts.

1:12.2

And that's why getting good players in the draft is so very, very important.

1:17.7

They couldn't afford to keep Frank Clark.

1:20.1

They had to get rid of him.

1:22.6

And Kansas City was a trading partner.

1:25.0

And they picked up draft choices, which means more guys come in at the rookie pay scale, which allows you to work inside the cap.

1:34.4

Yeah, Frank Clark this week traded to the Kansas City Chiefs by Seattle.

1:38.7

He then signs a five-year $105.5 million contract.

1:42.2

Let's have a look at the first round of the draft. There are seven rounds, a team who had the worst record.

1:47.0

Last year, the Arizona Cardinals.

1:49.0

They pick first.

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