The valuations for week 3 are now updated for all players. This week’s values are available for free on the valuations page and the full season numbers as well as results from week 1 and 2 are available for premium subscribers. Here were this week’s top valued players. Position Player Positional Value Total Value QB […]
With Jamal Adams unhappy with his contract and some wild numbers being thrown around I figured this was as good a time as any to tackle one of the questions I get often- “is player X worth a record contract”. To keep this to the defensive side of the ball I’ll look at how much […]
One of the stranger quirks of the 2011 CBA was centered around a rookie contract mechanism called the Proven Performance Escalator. Simply put, the PPE provided pay raises to rookies in the 4th year of their original contracts, but only for those selected in the 3rd to 7th Rounds. 1st Round picks benefited from larger […]
Follow me on Twitter @BradOTC I recently posted a breakdown of each team’s Draft success from 2011-2014 based on the Fitzgerald-Spielberger/Top 5 APY metric (concept explained here with a table of Draft pick values). I wanted to expand on the research with an investigation of Pro Football Reference Approximate Value. First, below is the Top […]
The market for several positional groups on defense have experienced robust growth due to salary cap growth and free agency spending. In just the last year, the average salary for the 5 highest paid linebackers grew a bullish 36.86%. Players like C.J. Mosley and Kwon Alexander reaped the benefits of hitting free agency at the […]
The Cowboys announced a big extension yesterday, not for one of the big name offensive players, but instead for star linebacker Jaylon Smith. Smith was in an interesting position when it came to a contract extension. Though he was entering the final season of his four year contract he was technically not eligible for unrestricted […]
To add some context to OTC’s Rookie Class Evaluation, here’s a look at the best 12 rookie classes from 2011-2014. The class’s Snap Index is indicated in parentheses, and links to each rookie class are contained within the number of vested veteran contracts and extensions were secured from the class. 1. 2014 Jaguars (21.483) 11 […]