The NFL changed the rules for this year\u2019s draft, limiting teams to eight minutes between first-round picks. Some NFL general managers are not happy about that.<\/p>\n
Steelers GM Omar Khan said he preferred the old rule of 10 minutes between first-round picks.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d love to have 10 minutes, but it\u2019s the same for everybody else,\u201d Khan said. \u201cEight minutes is what it is, but those two minutes, it feels like an eternity sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Khan said that at the Steelers\u2019 pre-draft press conference, head coach Mike McCarthy joked that if Khan feels rushed during the draft, he should try calling plays on the sideline during a game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI only get 40 seconds to call a play,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cWe\u2019ll be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Khan said he and other GMs have been talking more about trades in the days leading up to the draft because they know they\u2019ll have less time to work out trades while they\u2019re on the clock.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey moved the first round from 10 minutes to eight minutes, so naturally we\u2019ve been having more conversations to set parameters of what the value is if you move up to this spot or trade back,\u201d Khan said. \u201cThere\u2019s more conversation, but until we get there, I\u2019m not sure how that\u2019s going to go.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is the first time the NFL has changed the timing of the first round since 2008, when the time between picks was reduced from 15 minutes to 10 minutes. The timing for Rounds 2-7 remains the same as last year: Teams get seven minutes to make picks in the second round, five minutes in Rounds 3-6 and four minutes in round 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL changed the rules for this year\u2019s draft, limiting teams to eight minutes between first-round picks. Some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-597251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}