Chase Stuart of Footballperspective.com has a really interesting article up, looking at the market ineffeciences of the rookie salary system as it relates to Cam Newton. Clearly there is no arguing that a rookie contract is market inefficient- rookies make pennies on the dollar compared to their equivalent veterans, but the recent attack on rookie […]
Training camps are starting this week, and in their leadup we have seen multiple stories of some players deeming to be underpaid (Zack Martin, Chris Jones) and others deemed to be overpaid by their teams (Joe Mixon, Kevin Byard). This was leading me to consider a concept I’ll call contract fate, the outcome of multiyear […]
Every year we discuss the Saints future salary cap and every year it is met with a response that the “cap doesn’t matter and it is easy to find a way”, but that excuse holds more merit when the team is a playoff team and you are living for today rather than tomorrow. This year […]
As expected for some time Ja’Waun James has filed a grievance against the NFL according to Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk. The grievance will seek $15 million in damages which is the amount of James’ 2021 and 2022 injury protection that was negotiated in his prior contract with the Broncos. We have talked about […]
The Patriots placed Josh Gordon on Injured Reserve today a move that was more or less signaled by a trade for receiver Mohamed Sanu the day before. Normally there would be no need to talk about this but I have gotten a number of questions on it due to a few comments I made on […]
In early April, I wrote an article on the Odell Beckham Jr. contract situation that has since led to the opportunity to work with Pat Leonard at the New York Daily News on an article later in April and I had a conversation with Anita Marks on ESPN New York a couple weeks ago on […]
On Friday, February 23 the NFL released its annual list of compensatory picks for the draft on April 26th (see here). Thirty-two draft picks were awarded to fifteen teams, with the Bengals, Cowboys, Packers and Raiders leading the way with four each. In a nutshell, teams receive a compensatory draft pick for each of their […]