Polian Says Cost of First-Round Picks "Skewed"

Colts president Bill Polian took up a cause we banged the drum about last week, the prohibitive and spiraling cost of having the first overall pick.

"The draft was designed to either allow the weakest teams, based on record, to choose the best players, or if they chose not to take a particular player, to gather a bunch of picks to further accelerate their growth and competitiveness," he said. "That's now been skewed by the cost of the picks in the first round."

This is one of those genie is out of the bottle, horse is through the barn door situations, unfortunately. With looming CBA strife and bigger battles between players, agents and ownership possibly coming, this is not likely to become a front-line issue.