So there has been a great deal of talk this week about rookies being underpaid. I think it came out from a really good article by Mike Freeman and later our buddy Chase Stuart chimed in on the topic as well with some good input. Ive written about the benefits derived from the draft before […]
I was talking with a friend of mine the other day about receivers and potential salaries in free agency which reminded me of my dominator index for receivers. For those who don’t remember the dominator index, basically it’s a measure of how much of the offense a receiver accounts for. We break down each receiver […]
UPDATE (March 26): In light of the news that the NFL erred in awarding three of the compensatory picks, this post has been altered to reflect those changes. NOTE: I will be in the process of changing OTC’s draft page to calibrate its showing of the compensatory draft picks with the official release. This may […]
Since this is the first year I have set out to project the NFL’s compensatory draft picks (via a program built using OTC’s data), I anticipated that there would be mistakes along the way as part of simply learning more of the process. I have already issued a couple corrections as I have learned more, […]
In the post that contains my projections for the awarding of compensatory picks for the 2015 draft, one reader noticed that I had made no mention of Ed Dickson, who went from Baltimore to Carolina on a minimum salary benefit deal of $795,000 on April 10, 2014. Indeed, other than for the fact that his […]
Updates January 19 (11:39 AM ET): The projections have been altered to include CJ Wilson (originally missed as a qualifying player), and to change a cutoff point between the 5th round and 6th round. Subtracted information has been struck out and updated information bolded. February 4: Added UFAs originally missed that were signed between April […]
Updated- Thursday, April 18, 10:22 PM [adsenseyu1] Arizona Cardinals Lorenzo Alexander Jonathon Amaya Will Batson Yeremiah Bell Jasper Brinkley Antoine Cash Antoine Cason Brian Hoyer Rashad Johnson Rashard Mendenhall Bryan McCann Carson Palmer William Powell Jerraud Powers Chilo Rachal Frostee Rucker Matt Shaughnessy Alfonso Smith Drew Stanton Ronald Talley Curtis TaylorAtlanta Falcons Sam Baker Brian Banks […]