VII. Annual Rookie Draft
a.) The annual rookie draft must take place following the actual NFL draft and by the end of the NFL pre-season.
B. The rookie draft will be three rounds with twelve picks in each round.
1. There is a twelve-hour time limit for making all picks via EMAIL/Messageboard.
2. The clock starts at 12PM EST and stops at 10PM EST (9AM to 7PM PST).
C. The draft is not a serpentine style draft, the team with the worst record will select first in each round followed by the second worst and so on.
D. The draft order is determined from final standings in the regular season.
1. Any franchise owners that fail to E-mail in their draft picks without making prior arrangements with the commissioner will forfeit their draft picks.
2. A franchise owner who is unable to E-mail in his/her picks is allowed to appoint someone else serve as a proxy with the commissioner’s knowledge.
3. The clock must run down for each pick even if the franchise owner or a proxy is not present to send E-mail. This is to allow for an owner to E-mail his/her pick before the clock expires.
4. If a franchise owner or a proxy send an E-mail after a franchise’s draft pick clock expires, their pick is skipped and he/she cannot make up for the lost pick.
G. Trading future draft picks is permitted only up to four seasons in the future, counting the current season. (For example, in 2009, a franchise is not allowed to trade (or trade for) a draft pick beyond the 2012 draft.)
H. DEFFL uses a slotted rookie salary for all draft picks based on where they were taken in the draft. The rookie salaries are as follows:
1st Round
2nd Round
3rd Round
1st - $1,500,000
2nd - $1,450,000
3rd - $1,400,000
4th - $1,350,000
5th - $1,300,000
6th - $1,250,000
7th - $1,200,000
8th - $1,160,000
9th - $1,120,000
10th - $1,080,000
11th - $1,040,000
12th - $1,000,000
13th - $960,000
14th - $920,000
15th - $880,000
16th - $840,000
17th - $800,000
18th - $760,000
19th - $720,000
20th - $680,000
21st - $640,000
22nd - $600,000
23rd - $580,000
24th - $560,000
25th - $540,000
26th - $520,000
27th - $500,000
28th - $480,000
29th - $460,000
30th - $440,000
31st - $420,000
32nd - $400,000
33rd - $380,000
34th - $360,000
35th - $340,000
36th - $320,000
I. Rookies drafted in the DEFFL draft will not have their salaries and contract lengths count against franchise limits until
August 14th.
J. The failure of a franchise owner to make adjustments to his/her cap for incoming rookies by August 14th will result in the following:
1. Rookies will be dropped from rosters until the franchise is under the 24 million dollar cap.
2. The rookie with the lowest slotted salary cap figure will be dropped first and the rookie with the next highest salary will be dropped and so on until the franchise in error is under the cap limit.
3. All dropped rookies become unrestricted free agents immediately.
K. Any undrafted rookie must be signed to a contract and have his contract added to the salary cap by August 14th. These rookies are also subject to the rules found in section VI, line J, and the sub-lines.
L. Each franchise must announce the number of years they signed their rookie draft picks for (up to 4 years).