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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Croak" data-source="post: 362526" data-attributes="member: 2367">The numbers have been updated; according to <a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=6756301" target="_blank">this article</a>;      "The rookie wage scale is the only part I'm worried about," one  source involved in the talks said this weekend. "They've finished the  other important parts. The only issue left that can cause a problem is  the rookie wage scale."Under the NFL's proposal, the top pick's  contract value would go from $78 million over six years to $34 million  over five years with the ability to renegotiate after three years.       Owner and management sources maintain that the rookie wage system  the players have proposed does not represent the anticipated dramatic  reduction in salaries -- most notably for the top eight players chosen  in the draft -- which would result in redistributed money to veteran  players and retirees.     Player sources countered by saying  their proposed system provides considerable reduction to the 2010 rookie  salaries and that the dispute is based on owners desire to not only cut  salaries drastically but control players for five years, morphing into  "a dramatic veteran wage scale, not a rookie scale."</blockquote>

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