The rookie wage scale in the latest collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and the players a sociation remains a topic of contention for some in the industry, and the consequences -- intended or otherwise -- are still ripe for debate.But what's undeniable is that by making young players more of a fixed cost, with dramatically le s guaranteed Tim Harris Jersey money than had been the norm and much more manageable contracts, it has stimulated a fairly robust trade market. In the past, if a top pick looked like a bust and was faltering after a couple of seasons, teams were more or le s stuck with him. The contract -- remember, guys like came into the league with $60M guaranteed before they ever threw a pa s -- served as an albatro s for player and team alike and made it difficult for either side to move on.No one else wanted to a sume those same contracts, even if another team thought that young pro could improve in its roster. It might require complicated negotiations to move money around or alter the contract to facilitate a trade and it wasn't worth the effort in many cases. So it prevented the player from getting a fresh start elsewhere until the deal expired or he was released, and in the meantime the team that drafted him -- but didn't need him anymore -- was stuck, too.That's hardly the case anymore, and especially for some of the smarter and more succe sful franchises in the it has become a science trying to acquire such candidates via trade. Instead of picking way down in the selection order for the waiver wire, which is the destination for jettisoned draft busts this time of year, the smart teams are jumping the line and making trades. The struggling player is eager for a new chance with a new regime -- and in the cases of the , and , who have been very active on the trade market -- they're going to a winning organization that knows a thing or two about player development. And the Steelers, Patriots and Seahawks know that if they merely wait to make a waiver claim on a former top pick who could be released, well, someone else ahead of them is going to land him first. And they also know that, with such stocked winning rosters, those future fifth-round picks, or whatever, are hardly a guarantee to make their team, anyway.Those teams trust their evaluations of the player coming out Buffalo Bills Accessories of college, they do their homework, they identify a limited role in which they think the player can thrive and they generally don't ask him to do too much. The player doesn't have to feel like the savior anymore, the pre sure is off, and that new team didn't draft him and hasn't already sunk money into him. The new team has made only a limited risk to land him, so there aren't the constant questions about why his career hasn't gone according to plan.And on the other side of the ledger, this cost certainty has empowered new young regimes, like the one in Buffalo, to weed out players who won't be there long-term and dig out from the personnel decisions of their predece sors quite quickly. In just a matter of weeks the new regime of GM Brandon Beane and coach Sean McDermott has parted with a handful of recent high picks NFL Buffalo Bills Jersey made before their arrival without handicapping their salary cap and without having to do any contract gymnastics. They shipped out , , and for draft compensation and got back a player in , from Philadelphia, who wasn't living up to his draft billing with the and could use new digs himself. Of course, it's hardly foolproof and it doesn't always work. Case in point: there were only losers in the Jonathan Baldwin for A.J. Jenkins swap of first-round busts in 2013 that the and 49ers made. But the reasoning is sound, and in general, it's a positive for all sides. The team trading away the player at least gets something for him (he would have netted them just a comp pick if they let him play out his contract and eventually leave as a free agent), the player gets a fresh start and his new team has another toy to play with in the upcoming season.The Patriots have made a cottage industry out of these sorts of buy-low propositions. Last year it was guys like and . A few years before that it was linebacker . This time around they landed receiver , a speedy but erratic former first-round pick of the , in return for their third-string quarterback, , a recent second-day pick himself. And this is a good thing for all involved.The Pats lose for the year, and still remained deep at receiver, but now they have more insurance. With in the fold and and home-run hitters as well, they have become much more of a deep ball team, and Dorsett has the speed to get anywhere on the field. If someone else goes down they don't have to revamp their offense on the fly. For Dorsett, he gets to catch balls from the greatest quarterback ever at a time when the Colts don't know when their starter, , is going to be able to play. With former Colts GM Ryan Grigson, the guy that drafted him, already fired in Indy, now is a good time for him to get out as well. And Bri sett isn't trapped behind two QBs in Indy like he was in New England. Luck' Joe Ferguson Jersey s health makes him a concern in the short term and Bri sett may end up seeing more playing time.I get it, all the way around. It might not end up changing the fortunes of either team, but the Pats aren't going to get Dorsett on waivers, and the move just might help both teams. A year ago the Steelers bought low on former bust . This time around they parted with -- the rare receiver they took high in the draft who wasn't panning out and who was stuck behind a bunch of stars -- with the needy Browns taking a Mario Addison Jersey chance on him. And moving corner made sense after trading for from the Browns last week. Those deals came together in a matter of minutes, with the ease of moving these contracts an afterthought now.And the Seahawks made potentially the biggest trade of them all by landing from the for and a second-round pick. Richardson, still just 26, taken 13th overall in 2013, fits directly into this model. His attitude and off-field incidents and desire for a mega-contract and fractured relationships with Jets players and staff alike all left New York with one real option -- get something for him while you can. Despite all his talent and his ability to take over games when he's truly motivated to do so, there were too many incidents and too much concern over what a future suspension might mean to ever give Richardson big money in New York, and the Jets knew they had to move on. Even with Richardson, and even if he stayed out of trouble and didn't grate on the people around him and didn't bemoan his lack of a new contract and played to his abilities (all big ifs), the Jets were still going to finish near the bottom of the NFL and be in line for a top three pick. And with his fifth-year option still manageable enough ($8M) after he played out four years for just $10M total, he remained a commodity that could be shipped out in trade without complications.The Seahawks, who have