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Phil Savage

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  • Senior Bowl executive director; former Cleveland Browns GM
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NFL
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Phil Savage, Senior Bowl executive director; former Cleveland Browns GM · · 4-team CFP (2014-20) · permalink
“The reality of it is, in many way, major college football is the minor league system for the NFL.”
Savage said major college football is in many ways the NFL's minor league, since the NFL, unlike baseball or basketball, has no development system of its own.
Source: AL.com: Titans' Mike Vrabel says Nick Saban, Urban Meyer part of NFL 'farm system'
NFL relationship & draft