Last week Troy brought up an interesting point about use of the elevation rule and the use on vets vs non-vet players so I thought we could look that up this week. Thus far there have been 113 players who have been elevated. Of those players 34 are veterans, so about 30% of call ups […]
Despite CoVid-19 posing ramifications to next year’s salary cap, several positional groups have experienced strong growth over the last few months. In April, Laremy Tunsil signed a 3-year, $66M extension, eclipsing the highest paid OT, Lane Johnson, by 22%. In early July, Patrick Mahomes signed a 10-year extension worth over $450M. The deal established Mahomes […]
The new CBA was officially ratified by the slimmest of margins (reportedly by 60 votes) and the NFL immediately announced the new salary cap for the year at $198.2 million for the year. With the CBA drama behind us we now have a new set of rules in front of us and obviously a lot […]
The numbers are in from PFT for Rams running back Todd Gurley and it is indeed quite an impressive contract that should help reshape the running back market. So lets explore a bit and look at what this deal may mean moving forward.
So every year around draft time I usually like to try to take some different looks at draft values. The best received one was using the PFR AV scores for rookies as a baseline to compare against veterans and then translating that to a salary expectation. This would be a rolling scale since each year […]
With the deadline for placing the franchise or transition tag on players now in the past, we can take a closer look as to how teams could approach free agency with respect to gaining potential for compensatory picks a year from now. A few of the factors that come into judging potential for each team […]