In case you hadn’t noticed, the salaries for every player in the NFC East can be found on this site in the menus on the right hand side just above my sweet high-tech logo. Or… to make it easier on you, you can just click right here to see the Cowboys, Eagles, Giants, and Redskins. Anyway, I thought it might be fun to list the Top 20 worst current contracts in the NFC East. Feel feel to tell me what I got wrong: (cont after the jump)…
| Rank | Player | Team | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | Casey Rabach | Redskins | 3,000,000 | 4,000,000 | Like a number of other OL on this list, he’s aging and in decline. Still shows up every week though. Tried to keep him off this list, but couldn’t find anyone else. | |||
| 19 | Winston Justice | Eagles | 2,700,000 | 3,225,000 | 3,750,000 | Struggled down the stretch last season (perhaps due to injury). Benched during playoff loss to GB. Token Eagle? | ||
| 18 | Shawn Andrews | Giants | 3,000,000 | 4,250,000 | 5,250,000 | 5,500,000 | Undependable. | |
| 17 | David Diehl | Giants | 4,000,000 | 3,825,000 | 4,100,000 | Aging, and the injuries started creeping in last season. | ||
| 16 | Eli Manning | Giants | 8,500,000 | 10,750,000 | 13,000,000 | 15,150,000 | 17,000,000 | Borderline Top 10 NFL QB should not be the richest man in the NFL. |
| 15 | DeAngelo Hall | Redskins | 4,500,000 | 6,000,000 | 7,500,000 | 9,000,000 | Wildly overrated. Got annoyed when he made the Pro Bowl. Got even more annoyed when he was the MVP of it. | |
| 14 | Keith Brooking | Cowboys | 2,200,000 | He’s done. And I just don’t like him. (Bias alert) – Sorry, I’m trying. | ||||
| 13 | Trent Williams | Redskins | 7,852,000 | 11,000,000 | 5,000,000 | 7,250,000 | 10,250,000 | Williams may very well eventually be a star. This is more a result of the absurd money Top 5 picks make. |
| 12 | Antrel Rolle | Giants | 5,250,000 | 6,750,000 | 7,000,000 | 7,000,000 | The Giants paid far too much last offseason when the pickings were slim in free agency. | |
| 11 | Brandon Jacobs | Giants | 4,650,000 | 4,900,000 | I still think Jacobs can be quite valuable to the Giants, but he’s not worth anything close to what he’s making. | |||
| 10 | Igor Olshansky | Cowboys | 3,335,000 | 4,200,000 | 4,400,000 | Just a big body. | ||
| 9 | Michael Boley | Giants | 3,500,000 | 4,000,000 | 4,250,000 | Not the playmaker the Giants hoped he’d be. | ||
| 8 | Rocky Bernard | Giants | 2,950,000 | 3,450,000 | Thought this was a good signing a couple years ago. After 2 years, Bernard has 40 tackles and 3 sacks. Oops. | |||
| 7 | Chris Canty | Giants | 5,250,000 | 6,000,000 | 6,250,000 | 6,500,000 | Never understood why the Giants paid so much for Canty. Still don’t. | |
| 6 | Terence Newman | Cowboys | 8,000,000 | 6,016,000 | 7,600,000 | 7,500,000 | Still a decent player, but turns 33 in Sept, and is very much in decline. Only a matter of time before he’s cut, be it this year or in the near future. | |
| 5 | Leonard Davis | Cowboys | 6,000,000 | 6,000,000 | 6,000,000 | Had a terrible season in 2010, and was even benched at one point. | ||
| 4 | Marion Barber | Cowboys | 4,250,000 | 5,750,000 | 6,250,000 | 7,000,000 | Was really good relieving Julius Jones in the 2nd half against tired defenses; not so much as THE guy. | |
| 3 | Donovan McNabb | Redskins | 1,750,000 | 11,500,000 | 12,500,000 | 13,000,000 | 12,750,000 | 99.9999% likely he’ll be cut. Awful contract makes him untradeable., and I didn’t even mention the $10 million roster bonus he’s due in August (or whenever). |
| 2 | Roy Williams | Cowboys | 5,109,971 | 6,802,000 | 8,498,000 | Disastrous trade for the cowboys in 2008. | ||
| 1 | Albert Haynesworth | Redskins | 5,400,000 | 6,700,000 | 8,500,000 | 10,300,000 | 11,500,000 | If you follow the NFL… at all… there shouldn’t be much of an explanation necessary here. |
I like the site Jimmy. Question: why is haynesworth at the bottom of the list? I see him being top 3. His coach wouldn’t even let him suit up for practice. He made a boat load of money for a non injury vacation, right?
He’s ranked #1. I went countdown style. See the rank to the left of his name.
My bad. Read it on an iPhone. Didn’t see the whole picture…literally
Great cmoomn sense here. Wish Id thought of that.
Not one Eagle…pfft there goes your credibility.
Manning has won a Super Bowl, and he player well in it. That is after all the object of the whole overdone mess.
Winston Justice is an Eagle. But besides him, who should be on the list instead? Here’s the whole menu of Eagles players:
http://bloggingthebeast.com/nfc-east-player-salaries/eagles-salaries/
Ones I’d consider: FB Weaver making 2.5 mil the next two years. He’s coming off a brutal knee injury and we have a very serviceable fullback in Schmitt. The other would be CB Joselio Hanson, who hasn’t done much but is scheduled to make about 1.7 mil. I guess these are huge paydays by any means, but maybe ones that are on the fence.
Trent Dilfer won a superbowl too. Would you pay him $8.5 million to play for your team? Would you have ever paid him that much?
“I didn’t even mention the $10 million roster bonus”
If you actually don’t consider the roster bonus, that $1 million to play for 2011 looks pretty cheap.
The lack of Eagles says something about now getting into bad deals, but I think you can include the fact that there isnt a high quality experienced linebacker or RCB on the team right now. The front office is so frugal that they avoid bad deals but continually miss placing talent in obviously glaring holes.
The only Giant I would argue with being ranked so high is Canty… he is doing his job of stuffing the run and drawing double teams. He is not necessarily going to get gaudy stats, but he has an effect on the line, assisting the rest of the players. He may still belong on the list, but he is a tad high. Otherwise I can’t argue with any of the Giants on the list.
You’re off to a great start Jimmy!
Great site, Jimmy…I’ve found myself stopping by here more often than BGN since that thing has grown WAY too much for my liking
Keep it up!!!
Great article! I really am glad to see how young (and cheap) our team is (for now – until this lockout thing is over and contracts get done).
This is scandalous!
Why is Eli Manning only ranked 16th?
I was tempted to move him up, but he’s still probably better than 2/3 of the QB’s in the NFL. On my previous post just before this, I was warned in the comment section by a Giants fan to take it easy on Manning – I think he got in my head.
I don’t mind people criticizing Manning nor the Giants – I’m the first to do it. When justified and argumented, not when it comes from some pure hatred.
I believe he’s overpaid and belong on this list : being the 10th best QB in the league and the best paid is the definition of overpaid. Whether #16 is an accurate ranking or not is another thing.
Isn’t Shawn Andrews contract set up so that they can cut him without much of a penalty during any year of his contract… this is how giants fans justified the signing to me not sure how true it is.
Good thing Eagles got rid of Stacey Andrews or he would have been up there.
Technically, a number of the players on the above list can be cut without consequence. Exhibit A is McNabb. I didn’t bother with all of that.
But to semi-answer your answer question, here’s how they explain his contract in full on rotoworld (NBC):
8/20/2010: Signed a six-year, $32.5 million contract. The deal included a $250,000 signing bonus. Annual $500,000 workout bonuses are available throughout the contract’s life. Also included are annual $1 million roster bonuses in years three through six. 2011: $3 million (+ $3.5 million roster bonus due on 30th day of “league year”), 2012: $4.25 million, 2013: $5.25 million, 2014-2015: $5.5 million, 2016: Free Agent
Very fun read, you’re off to a great start. #1 was a no-brainer, in every sense of the word…
Thanks.