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Originally Posted by jsarno

I had no idea...thanks for explaining it.
So does this mean the NFL chooses the rookie pool limit for EACH team?

Yes they do. It varies for each team. The more picks you made in the draft, and the higher those picks are, the higher your rookie pool allotment.

Here's an article on ESPN summarizing how it works, and a table showing the rookie pool allotments by team in 2008:

ESPN - Chiefs get largest rookie pool to pay draft picks - NFL