NFL Developmental League Not Being Reconsidered, Says Competition Committee Head

March 21, 2016   ·   Mike Norris   ·   Jump to comments

It's been nine years since the NFL had a developmental league, and according to NFL Competition Committee head Rich McKay's comments on Monday, it's not happening anytime soon, per Marc Sessler of NFL.com: 
We have not really studied it lately. It's been a long time since we looked at it, almost back to NFL Europe, and when we looked at NFL Europe and the value of NFL Europe, what we saw in NFL Europe was, it definitely had an impact on some linemen. It definitely had an impact on officiating. It was very costly. And in the end, we transitioned quite quickly to the idea that we liked having more practice squad players than we did a developmental league.
NFL Europe is what evolved from a developmental league started in 1991, according to Sessler, but if something is not making the NFL money, it won't last long.
The league recently expanded its practice squads from five to 10 players, which McKay said has more of a hands-on type of benefit for teams, per Ses...

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