Quarterback Sam Bradford, the first overall pick in April's NFL Draft has agreed to terms with the St. Louis Rams. His deal will guarantee him $50 million over the course of six years.

You can argue about athletes being overpaid and whether or not any human being is really worth the insane amounts of money being thrown their way, but this contract is just as risky as making him the first overall pick in the first place.

If you knew nothing about the game of football past the fact that the Quarterback is the one who throws the ball, you would probably be able to put two and two together and guess that the shoulder would probably be the most important body part, after the brain of course.

That basic thinking is what makes me can't understand why the Rams would put so much faith in a guy who not only missed most of his last season in college because of a shoulder injury, but needed surgery to repair it.

I guess that's what desperation will do to a team. For most of us who know a little bit of something about football, we also realize that the quarterback position is the single most important position on the field. To put this much trust in an individual who not only hasn't proved himself physically but also competitively marks what I believe to be the closing chapter in what has increasingly become a spending free-for-all on rookies.

There's going to be new CBA for the 2011 season and after this coupled with the $41 million plus guaranteed to Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, you can be sure that a hard rookie salary cap is going to be part of it.

It only makes sense. If you listened to 87 Live on 7-19, you heard us discuss that since 1990, first round picks went to less than 10% of the possible Pro Bowls. Draft status is hardly an indicator of future performance and the league suffers from teams throwing boat loads of cash at players who don't live up to expectations and hold the progression of their respective franchise back.

A rookie cap will allow teams to pay the players that actually have a track record of NFL success, and therefore allocate their resources- in theory- better towards assembling teams that can win championships.

Now all it takes is convincing the NFLPA of that.