How many people are involved in signing a player onto an NFL team roster?

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How many people are involved in signing a player onto an NFL roster?

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Answer by Ted SundquistGM of the Denver Broncos (2002-2008) and Broncos College Scouting Director during their back-to-back Super Bowl XXXII and XXXIII wins

I think a lot of people, fans and media, don't realize the amount of combined effort that goes into getting a player on your roster. A lot of time the picture is painted that the head coach has final say, or just the general manager has final say, or whoever picks a given guy. But when I look back at our years in Denver, Mike was the focal point of the organization, the spokesman, and he was the EVP of Football Operations, but the amount of work at every level, all the way down to the guys in the video department, the scouts out on the road, the assistant coaches who evaluated Terrell Davis at that time, all the different people putting in their opinion, putting their evaluation in, submitting their reports, debating the strengths and weaknesses, to see all that come together and then have the player go out and perform like he did, a 6th-round guy that many people thought wouldn't even make the league, ultimately rush for 2000 yards in the season and all the various things that he did, it's very gratifying.

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But it's more gratifying in the sense that the process worked, and that I was part of a process where we all put in, checked our egos at the door, and did what we could do to make the team better. And we found players like that. I talked about John Mobley, becoming a starting linebacker out of a Division II school, drafted in the first round, knocking down the final pass that secured Super Bowl XXXII.

It's really cool. It's really neat to know that you had a hand in it, but also that there were lots of hands in it.

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