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Bengals and other teams show NFL should reconsider 3-year rule

Ja'Marr Chase scores a touchdown as The LSU Tigers take on The Clemson Tigers in the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship. Monday, Jan. 13, 2020. Cfp Monday Half1 7989

The landscape of the NCAA and college football is changing. The NFL should change with it. The Cincinnati Bengals are among several teams that showed with their draft that the NFL should strongly consider changing one of its most important mandates, which is the three-year rule.

NFL Football Operations defines the three-year rule as “To be eligible for the draft, players must have been out of high school for at least three years and must have used up their college eligibility before the start of the next college football season.