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The money says Charles Clay is an elite tight end in the NFL.
It says he’s right up there, financially, with the likes of Jimmy Graham, Rob Gronkowski and Julius Thomas.
Clay’s other numbers, the ones that don’t follow dollar signs, say something else about one of the biggest offseason additions to the Buffalo Bills. Good, but not necessarily elite. Productive, but not necessarily spectacular.
In the past four seasons with the Miami Dolphins (58 games), Clay caught 161 passes for 1,809 yards and 14 touchdowns. The rundown of the others in his fiscal neighborhood goes as follows:
In the past five seasons with the New Orleans Saints (78 games), Graham, now with Seattle, caught 386 passes for 4,752 yards and 51 touchdowns.