Is Mario Williams in 10 highest paid defender (1 Viewer)

[Sigmund Bloom]

Seriously, Im racking my brain for defenders that got bigger signing bonuses and guaranteed money than Mario. Im not just talking rookies, I mean any defender in the league...

Doesnt Mario have to be one of the absolute best defenders (and soon) in the league at any position to justify this pick?

Also, with the rate of increase for rookie contracts, are top 5 picks soon going to be liabilities?

 

[trader jake]

Also, with the rate of increase for rookie contracts, are top 5 picks soon going to be liabilities?

soon? they might be alreadythe rate at which these contracts are swelling seems to be above the rate at which the salary cap is increasing (but i havn't done the math to back that up)

 

[cstu]

Also, with the rate of increase for rookie contracts, are top 5 picks soon going to be liabilities?

soon? they might be alreadythe rate at which these contracts are swelling seems to be above the rate at which the salary cap is increasing (but i havn't done the math to back that up)

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There was some article regarding rookie contracts, something like "Loser's Curse", about how teams get high picks are cursed because they have to pay huge signing bonuses to unproven rookies.

 

[Muahahaha]

Also, with the rate of increase for rookie contracts, are top 5 picks soon going to be liabilities?

soon? they might be alreadythe rate at which these contracts are swelling seems to be above the rate at which the salary cap is increasing (but i havn't done the math to back that up)

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There was some article regarding rookie contracts, something like "Loser's Curse", about how teams get high picks are cursed because they have to pay huge signing bonuses to unproven rookies.
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This is my pet issue. Here is a link to the article by Massey and Thaler:http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~cadem/bio/m...9;s%20curse.pdf

This whole draft pick "points card" that Jimmy Johnson made is completely flawed IN A SALARY CAP WORLD. The cap puts a constraint on dollars; you need to put the best team you can put on the field, given those dollars. Houston is committing $25M in guaranteed cap money to an unproven commodity, who, history shows, will most likely only be marginally better than most 2nd and 3rd round picks, but will get paid many times more. Good luck with that.

If there were no cap, this wouldn't matter. Dollars would be no constraint. The only constraint would be the roster size. Get the best players; money is no object. Stockpile them in fact. But there is a salary cap. You need to optimize each dollar. Massey and Thaler conclude, and I agree with this, that teams should trade out of the top of the draft as quickly as possible. The guys at the top of the draft are way too overpaid compared to the proven free agents that these teams could be getting. Hence, the loser's curse.

I don't understood why front office personnel in the NFL haven't figured this out.

 

[Unlucky]

I don't understood why front office personnel in the NFL haven't figured this out.

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They haven't? Maybe the recent lack of trades in the top 5 has more to do with teams not wanting to move up than teams trying to move down?

 

[cstu]

I don't understood why front office personnel in the NFL haven't figured this out.

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They haven't? Maybe the recent lack of trades in the top 5 has more to do with teams not wanting to move up than teams trying to move down?
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They have to a point, but the Texans for example felt they would have not been getting value by trading down with what was offered. IMO, even if they got a 2nd or 3rd to move down it would have made sense financially.