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10 Biggest Questions: Which 2022 draft pick has the best contract year?

Certain phrases stick with you. In football, one of my favorite phrases comes from the late, great Terez Paylor.

Ford just secured the bag, folks. He’s agreed to a five-year deal worth $87.5 million, a source confirms.

And the contract year, my friends, remains undefeated. — RIP Terez A. Paylor (@TerezPaylor) March 13, 2019

That phrase signifies that often, when a player is in the last year of their contract, they have a career year before they have an opportunity to get paid. There are countless examples of this happening.