when are you not considered a rookie in the nfl
Rookie In the National Football League a rookie is any player who is in their first season in the NFL. The NFL awards the best rookie with the Associated Press NFL Rookie of the Year Award, as voted upon the Associated Press. In the NFL, rookies have special contract rules which limit how much a team can pay them as well as limiting the length of the contract, as per stipulations laid out in the NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement.[4][5]