Is the NFL draft illegal?

Published April 25, 2011 4:00am ET



National Football League officials will kick off their 76th amateur draft Thursday night in New York’s Radio City Music Hall. But while the National Football League Players Union has accepted the results of the 75 previous NFL Drafts, it will not be participating in this one.

According to a law suit filed last month in federal court in Minneapolis by Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Drew Brees, the draft itself is a violation of our nation’s anti-trust laws.

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