Why NFL teams are always acquiring new players

NFL Rush

The economic principle I’m exploring is because of scarcity, people choose. My research question to help me study the economic principle is Why do NFL teams need new acquisitions? The article published on SBNation titled “NFL free agency 2018: The 1 position each team needs to fix” demonstrates this economic principle because it shows why NFL teams have to make new acquisitions every year to maintain success or improve.

First, each team must assess the current status of their team. What roles on the team they are lacking, (young players, veterans, etc.) what positions they are lacking, and also what they feel might be the missing piece to their puzzle of success.

Second, teams will see who is available to their team and why they might choose to come to the certain team. How they performed last year, how much money they are willing to spend, who they can bring together to compliment each other and what role they see for the player they are pursuing.

Third, teams decide what roster moves are necessary to their success, short-term, and long-term. No team targets players without a reason behind it, and that reason as to why NFL teams need new acquisitions every year is because players will retire, leave for free agency, regress with age, or be too expensive to keep so they must replace or improve their roster to maintain or achieve success on paper and on the field.

In my next blog post, I will research: Why players choose to leave and join different teams?