Expected Contract Value Free Agency Summary: Running Backs

Player Nominal Value ECV % Expected ECV/Year DeMarco Murray $40,000,000 $27,418,000 69% $5,483,600 Mark Ingram $16,000,000 $11,957,100 75% $2,989,275 CJ Spiller $16,000,000 $11,311,800 71% $2,827,950 Shane Vereen $12,350,000 $9,382,450 76% $3,127,483 Frank Gore $12,000,000 $8,636,500 72% $2,878,833 Ryan Matthews $11,000,000 $8,080,000 73% $2,693,333 Jerome Felton $9,200,000 $6,365,350 69% $1,591,338 Justin Forsett $9,000,000 $5,367,000 60% $1,789,000 […]

DeMarco Murray and the Team Building Strategies of the Cowboys and Eagles

For someone who played quarterback and wide receiver throughout his entire football career, I’ve strangely fallen in love with analyzing the running back since I’ve started writing here. I think part of it is knowing how completely wrong I was on the first article I wrote on Over The Cap and then digging deeper to […]

Most Likely One-and-Done Contracts

Each offseason a number of the multi-year contracts signed by free agents the previous offseason are terminated after just one season.  These contracts may be terminated prematurely for a variety of reasons:  disappointing performance, injury, team salary cap situation, etc.  These factors are, for the most part, unpredictable.  However, we can use Expected Contract Value […]

Ravens 2015 Salary Cap Outlook

Estimated 2015 Cap Space: $4.7M ($143M cap limit)Roster Overview Players Under Contract: 50 Pro Bowlers: 3 Unrestricted Free Agents: 14(4 with 50%+ playtime) Draft Selection: 26 Salary Cap Breakdown Free Agents to Re-sign I can see a case both for and against keeping Torrey Smith, but given the Ravens other options are a 36 year old […]