23. Those figures are up from previous years, as players on the winning team in Super Bowl 56 got paid $150,000 while the losers got paid $75,000. Notifications can be turned off anytime in the browser settings. The highest-paid backup is indeed Sam Darnold ($7.5 million), who some...
How much money do NFL practice squad players make? Players with two or fewer accrued NFL seasons earnat least $9,200 per week, which equals $165,600 for 18 weeks spent on the practice squad. (A player accrues a season when they are on full-time pay status for at least six regular-...
Undrafted rookies are usually long shots to make NFL rosters, and when they're receivers who run a 4.99-second 40-yard dash, as Bobo did at his UCLA pro day, it's pretty much a non-starter. But Bobo showed the Seahawks over the offseason that he's a bit fast...
coaches, and teams. It’s how data literacy — the ability to access, interpret, understand, and apply data-driven insights — is quickly becoming a make-or-break skill for players. Much like tackling or kicking field goals, using data is a skill that can be learned and...
“When you make a guy fast in a video game, he’s just a little too effective,” he said. Take receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, a former track standout who hasn’t exactly had a great NFL career despite ranking among the league’s fastest players. Heyward-Bey is just the kind of one-...
So let’s dive into the data and see if we can find a value that fits for the “modern” NFL. Can we find the breaking point for an NFL RB in terms of carries or touches? Does that number still exist? We are going to do this by looking at the total seasons 2000 and beyond whe...
What's left to do: Get an extension done with Marcus Maye. The franchise-tagged safety isn't as much of a difference-maker as former teammate Jamal Adams, but he's a valuable starter on a team that simply hasn't drafted and developed many tal...
Thigpen can't say exactly what kind of chess piece the NFL club that drafts Surratt will be getting. He knows it will be a valuable one, and very much contemporary with the way defensive skill sets are evolving at the pro level: speedy, quick, and well-suited for pass defense. ...
Despite the 24/7/365 attention paid to the draft nowadays, the NFL has quietly become somewhat of a working-class league comprised of scores of players who were never drafted. Last year,according to Over The Cap, 31 percent of the players on opening day rosters were former undrafted free ...
“Everything was so new,” Monheim said. “You’re just learning so much at such a fast pace that that’s pretty much all you’re doing.” USC offensive lineman Jonah Monheim taps a sword before football practice. (Michael Owen Baker / For The Times) ...