Breaking down the Detroit Lions’ positional spending on offense

A few weeks ago on the Pat McAfee Show, McAfee took a break from training for his match with Baron Corbin at SummerSlam to talk about which teams were spending the most money in the league from a unit standpoint. What he found is that the Detroit Lions have the most expensive offense in the NFL.

At the time, McAfee’s information—via Warren Sharp—was accurate, but since then, the Commanders recently passed the Lions after a few big extensions. Currently, the Lions are nipping at their heels in second place with $125,807,224 in cap liabilities devoted to their offense, according to OverTheCap.com’s website.

That’s a lot. I understand how seeing something like that could give you pause. After…