Honour Over Glory
Fire Sully
- Jan 30, 2012
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It definitely does water things down for what is considered a 1st round pick.This is where I point out that much of the hype around first and second round picks was started at a time when the League had around had a lot fewer teams and the mythologizing of first round picks (and especially second round picks as "high picks") hasn't really caught up to the fact that there are now 32 teams, and thus, 32 picks in the first round.
For reference, when the draft age was permanently lowered to 18 in 1980, there were 21 teams.
The last pick of the first round today was in the last half of the second round in 1980.
In 1995 there were 26 teams, that means the last 6 picks would be high 2nd round picks. If that was done with 32 teams, Georges Laraque would be a 1st round pick, lol.