NFL contracts are interesting things. We all obsess over them a little, talking about this and that player begin overpaid, but we have very few concrete ways of measuring the relative pay of players. In part because the salary cap rises over time, in part because rating players is fairly subjective, and in part because good players don’t hit the market very often so you’re bound to need to bid high to get them—there are few alternatives.
Over at ESPN, though, Bill Barnwell tried to bring some order to this chaos by establishing a baseline value at every position, and then seeing whose contract is worth more in terms of percentages.