23- Rigging Question.

Ok I know this may seem very simple for some of you, However is it smart to Riggin a character before Texturing It. I am curious about this?

If so or not can someone explain the negatives vs the positives of the step.

I am asking this not to jump ahead of Texturing. However for prepping purposes to have in place ahead of time if this was possible.

Like if I rigged a character up, place this rig on a separate Layer to hold in place so once the Texturing was done I could come back to the Rigg and go into the animating it. Or is this a no no and because of why?

Just curious here.

Thanks