We don’t always see eye to eye with Colts President and G.M. Bill Polian.  Okay, we’ve never seen eye to eye with him.

Until now.

Polian is pushing for changes to the way that players in round one are paid.  It’s something that we’ve been crowing about for at least a couple of years.

“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,” Polian said.  “That’s now been skewed by the cost of the picks in the first round.

“When that’s skewed and changed because of the agents, that isn’t a good thing for the game.”

Indeed, the worst team in the league will get no better by being compelled to spend more than $30 million guaranteed on one unproven player.

We’ve long believed that the NFLPA hasn’t pushed for the use of a rookie wage scale because the agents who have influence over the union want to maintain their ability to reel in up to three percent of the full value of those big-dollar contracts.

But why not find a way to redirect those windfalls to guys already in the league?  And why not restrict the money that is paid to players who have done nothing at the NFL level?

It’s an issue that hopefully will be addressed in the next CBA negotiations — and we’re also hopeful that neither side will view the creation of such a system as a concession.  It’s a measure that’s in the best interests of both sides.