With the Pro Bowl rosters now finalized I’ll do our annual financial assessment of the rosters. While the Pro Bowl is certainly not the best measure of who are the best players in the NFL it can at least help us look at some trends among those who receive votes. The average annual salary of […]
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 […]
Adrian Peterson’s contract situation offers an interesting case of the tradeoff between contractual risk, potential for surplus value, and optionality. Even after Peterson’s 2016 salary becomes guaranteed and his roster bonus vests on the 3rd day of the league year, Peterson holds all of the contractual risk for 2017. This risk is coupled with a […]
The following table displays the likelihood of each player with a salary cap number of $2 million or more remaining under contract for 2016, as calculated by Expected Contract Value 2.0. Pay cuts and retirements are considered releases for purposes of Expected Contract Value. Players subject to 5th year team options of rookie contracts are not […]
[adsenseyu1] The 2013 All-Pro Team has been announced. Per NFL.com, full story here 1st Team 2013 Cap Hit 2014 Cap Hit QB Peyton Manning, Denver $17,500,000 $,17,500,000 RB LeSean McCoy, Philadelphia $4,931,250 $9,700,000 RB Jamaal Charles, Kansas City $4,333,333 $4,833,333 FB Mike Tolbert, Carolina $2,025,000 $3,325,000 TE Jimmy Graham, New Orleans $1,489,285 FA WR Calvin Johnson, Detroit […]
[adsenseyu1] Normally I link some articles up every day but there were so many new deals signed in the last two days that I just want this to be an update for all yesterdays deals that I was able to get online.Draft Selection Signings Sheldon Richardson Desmond Trufant Sharrif Floyd Bjoern Werner Xavier Rhodes Datone […]
Today I wanted to look at some various futures projections at the wide receiver position. I thought this might make an interesting read for the current NFL with a number of big name receivers looking for contract extensions as well as for fantasy possibilities. To examine expectations I am sampling receivers from 2004 from 2014 […]