Yahoo! Sports reached out to highly placed personnel men from seven NFL teams, polling them on whether they?d support the establishment of draft pick protection for the 49ers given the holdout of Michael Crabtree. ?We shouldn?t become a league that rewards failure,? said one NFC North executive. ?Why would I want to end up with a lower pick in [a subsequent] draft because another team couldn?t sign a player? ? We?ve had very, very few [holdouts] like Crabtree, and fewer times where a player actually went back into a draft.? The last first-rounder to sit out an entire season was Kelly Stouffer, drafted by the St. Louis Rams, then located in Los Angeles, with the sixth pick in 1987. The former Colorado State quarterback had his rights traded following the season to the Seattle Seahawks, where he spent five seasons. ?If you can?t find a way to sign a draft choice, it puts you in some bad company,? the aforementioned NFC executive said. ?Somewhere along the way, you really [messed] up.? Asked if that was meant to be a poke at the 49ers, he replied: ?Read your history. Things like this are never one-sided.?