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http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=pasquarelli_len&id=2922370
This sounds like good news for this time of the year hopefully it will continue and it will be interesting to see who's the last first round pick in the fold.
With the calendar having now turned to July, a time when rookie negotiations typically heat up, more than 25 percent of the prospects selected in the draft have already reached terms on their rookie deals. Sixty-six of the 255 players selected in the April event have either signed their first NFL contracts or agreed to terms.
At 25.8 percent, the pace of signings is nearly triple what it was a year ago, when only 9.4 percent of the 2006 draft class, just 24 players, had reached agreements by the end of June. In the past four years, just 12.8 percent of the draft picks had signed contracts before the start of July, the traditional bargaining period.
This sounds like good news for this time of the year hopefully it will continue and it will be interesting to see who's the last first round pick in the fold.