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[QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 3342635, member: 652"]
The NFL uses college football as a free developmental league. The NFL doesn't have put any costs into developing its next group of talent. The colleges get money and its a win/win.

If football wasn't so physical then the 3 years away from your HS class graduating to be eligible would be unconstitutional.
Maurice Clarett sued on antitrust grounds to get into the 2004 NFL draft.

His legal team won arguing that the rule was restricting players from practicing their craft.
The NFL won on appeal because of Supreme Court Justice then Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

The NFL and NFLPA have a CBA that states the rules to be eligible to play in the NFL.  Thus, nobody not in the NFLPA doesn't have standing to challenge that agreement. For the rule to change a current player in the NFLPA would have to sue to get it changed but they won't.

The NBA-NBAPA currently have a 1 year away from your HS class rule to be eligible for the draft. That rule is likely changing soon but college basketball won't be like college football because its 1 year vs. 3 years.
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