Craig Woodson

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(04-16-2025, 04:33 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: The average length of an NFL career is 3.3 years. I find nothing wrong with guys staying in school and getting as much developmental coaching as they can and being fully mature physically when they enter the league.

Yea when you factor in the bad players.

But if you're going into the draft just expecting to get 3-4 years out of players, that's not the right mentality, IMO.

Every draft pick whether 1st round or 7th round should be with a vision to get into a multi-year 2nd contract, even if they just end up as a depth/ST player.

With that said, yes a 24 year old, if good enough, should be able to stick around the league for a multi-year 2nd contract, as that would get them to about 30 years old.

My main concern with 24 year olds entering the league is were they just doing well in college because they are going against dudes 4-5 years younger than them in some/many cases? And how much more growth are they going to have, as that's typically the age NFL players hit their peak physical growth?

Woodson might be about as capped out and ready as he'll ever be.
And that may be good for some circumstances because you may want someone who's ready immediately.
But if you want or need further growth beyond what they are now, you may not get much more.