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With injuries taking toll, developmental league desperately needed

By John Clayton
ESPN.com

Saturday, October 13, 2007

General managers quietly celebrated when NFL Europa ceased operations. After 16 years, NFL Europa lost its usefulness as a developmental league. However, the NFL is in desperate need of a developmental league, or a system to uncover players who are on the street looking for work. If an alternative is not found within the next year, the product on the field will suffer. It is arguably suffering already because rosters are too thin. Unfortunately, a lot of coaches and general managers are in den ...

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