A quick look around the NFL:
- Some teams consider guard Quenton Nelson to be top overall player in this year’s draft, Ian Rapoport of NFL.com tweets. He’s not int he mix to go No. 1 overall, but his tape has impressed scouts around the league. Nelson is widely expected to be a top ten pick, particularly after a strong showing in Indianapolis.
- Ohio State center Billy Price is expected to be sidelined for four months after undergoing successful surgery on his “incomplete pec tear,” a source tells ESPN.com’s Adam Schefter (on Twitter). Price should be ready for the start of training camp, so it’s possible that he could still be a first-round pick.
- The NFL set the 2018 salary cap at $177.2MM, and while that number fell short of the high end of recent projections, the league and the NFL players association have agreed to place more money in the NFL’s player performance pool, according to Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk. The player performance pool, which does not affect the salary cap, is designed to divert extra money to low-paid players who contribute on a regular basis. Last year, the pool amounted to $3.995MM per team, but that figure will increase to $4.415MM per club in 2017, as Ben Volin of the Boston Globe tweets.