I found this old article on the Colts website

[url]http://www.colts.com/sub.cfm?page=article7&news_id=1341[/url]

[QUOTE]Under NFL rules, players without contracts may not participate in camp.[/QUOTE]

Way to early to be concerned YET... The word is the Redskins are gong to work on the signings in mid-July.

Yeah, most rookie contracts aren't signed until July, as agents and front offices around the league hash out the contract numbers so that they line up for each rookie based on where they were picked in the draft. That process pushes most of the signings right up to the start of training camp.

well we have signed one rookie now, so I guess Snyder is ready to write the checks.

This is one of those things where I'd really like to know the background story. Something must have happened for ST to drop his agent between the time of being picked 5th and the first contract talks. This is the first time I ever remembering a top 5 pick to not even have an agent in late June.

[QUOTE=SKINSnCANES]well we have signed one rookie now, so I guess Snyder is ready to write the checks.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, there's generally a lot less haggling with lower-round picks.

BTW, I hope you were tongue-in-cheek with that comment about Snyder being ready to write the checks!:cheeky-sm

From today's Washington Post:

Gibbs warned about the perils of training camp holdouts, with Washington yet to sign its top three draft picks. Safety Sean Taylor, selected fifth overall, has yet to choose an agent. "For a guy to be shortsighted enough," Gibbs said, "or let an agent tell somebody we're going to hold out here and maybe throw away the first part of the year, it's going to affect him in the wallet and it's going to affect the team. . . . But there are just certain agent groups, they're going to hold them out and they think that's the way to go." . . .

If Taylor holds out it would be a huge mistake on his part. I really hope he's not that dumb.

He's going to be a big part of the D, we really need him in there on day 1.

I thnk Gibbs will make it clear to him that there will be huge ramification if he holds out. Both in playing time and monetarily. I wish we knew why he got rid of Rosenhaus.