Zoom breaking his spine was so badass , also pretty scary <| sep |> also more free time since they won ' t attend worlds then . <| sep |> Once you ' re drafted you can sign or refuse the contract offered by the team who drafted you if you refuse , you go back to college for a year and hope a different team drafts you next year . This isn ' t exactly true . In football and basketball you are no longer eligible to play in college once you ' ve officially declared yourself to be drafted . So if you don ' t like the team who drafted you and you refuse to sign with them then you basically have nowhere to play until the draft comes around next year . That ' s why it is very rare for players to refuse signing with the team who drafted them . It almost happened this year in the NFL with Joey Bosa , but he ended up signing after a long negotiating process . Baseball is also different . You can be drafted right out of high school and then you choose if you want to sign or go to college . If you choose to go to college then you have to play for 2 years before being draft eligible again . You can do that same thing again if you still aren ' t happy with where you ' re drafted , but once you ' ve played your 4 years in college you are out of college eligibility so you ' ll have to sign with whoever drafts you .