Pro Football Weekly - The Best Coverage in the NFL Search: Inner Circle Login Subscribe PFW Store Browse All Teams Sept. 15, 2005 Select a Team Arizona Atlanta Baltimore Buffalo Carolina Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit Green Bay Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Miami Minnesota New England New Orleans NY Giants NY Jets Oakland Philadelphia Pittsburgh San Diego San Francisco Seattle St. Louis Tampa Bay Tennessee Washington Home NFL Draft Draft Extras The Way We Hear It ... PFW Site Map Today's Poll Who will be NFL Defensive MVP this season? Berry, Bert Freeney, D. Lewis, Ray Peppers, J. Reed, Ed Seymour, R. Spikes, T. Suggs, T. Vilma, J. Williams, Kev Poll Results Go back to Draft Extras Summary: Draft Extras April 23, 2004 Early entries Court rulings reduce list of eligible underclassmen to 42 Following a ruling Monday by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the denials of emergency relief by two U.S. Supreme Court justices, the list of eligible underclassmen for the 2004 NFL draft has been reduced to 42. That is where it stood Feb. 5 before the initial ruling in Maurice Clarett's lawsuit against the NFL temporarily changed the landscape. Forty-one underclassmen applied to the NFL by the original Jan. 15 deadline and were granted eligibility according to the league's three-year eligibility rule (three football seasons after high school graduation). On Feb. 5, the NFL ruled that Pittsburgh sophomore WR Larry Fitzgerald was eligible under its rules because he was three years past his senior year of high school, from which he would have graduated in 2001 had he not transferred midway through his senior year. | |
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