It’s pretty much a free-for-all after the end of the draft, with teams luring the guys they want most with guaranteed money. Usually this would seem like it invests the team even more in the player but as we saw last year with TJ Moe, it doesn’t buy them much more than a season.
The Pats are masters of having undrafted rookies make their team. It’s worth a longer article to put it into perspective but every year it seems like a number of undrafted guys make the team and that certainly makes it enticing for future players who see they’ll get a fair shot.
As the saying goes, it doesn’t matter how they get to New England, it only matters what they do when they get there.
