What NFL players salaries do for their team

This post I set out to see how much NFL players are paid and how much that does for the value of their team. In the article titled NFL Team Contracts & Payrolls from spotrac.com, I looked into to different teams and how much they pay their players. I also used the most recent Forbes evaluation of NFL teams in the 2015 season.

Tony Romo- cowboysblog.dallasnews.com

In the NFL nowadays a player signing a contract just seems like another simple signing, but when you think about how much money that really is, it is shocking. This is yet another reason why NFL teams are worth so much money, and with all teams values rising the players keep getting payed more and more to bring in more people to make their teams money. The Dallas Cowboys who are the highest valued NFL team standing at $4 Billion in a recent Forbes evaluation. They pay around 50% of their players over a million dollars a year, and I don't mean just the $1-5 million dollars, there are many that get paid almost $20 million dollars a year. The Cowboys Quarterback Tony Romo from now through 2019 will make $109,408,000 which is the most on the team just to play 5 seasons of football. Even the Cowboys backup Quarterback Matt Cassel is getting paid $1.7 million just for the 2015 season. From just looking at the Cowboys payroll you can see that they are giving out big money to keep players on their team that fans want to see and that will make the team money.

While the Cowboys are the highest valued NFL teams I wanted to look into the Buffalo Bills who were recently valued at the least profitable team at $1.4 Billion. The Buffalo Bills pay around 40% of their players over a million dollars, but the main difference is there highest paid player Mario Williams is only going to make $55,800,000 million over the next five season. To put that into perspective he is only going to make about  half of what Tony Romo does even though he is a Defensive Lineman which many would argue is one of the most grueling positions on the field, compared to a Quarterback who many say are “soft players” and get injured to frequently. Either side you believe, either Quarterback or Defensive Lineman you must see how shocking it is that that player would make almost half of what the other star player makes just because of their team is crazy and doesn't seem right, but that's how it is nowadays in the NFL. So it truly shows that players who get paid more do end up having their team valued higher. Also the more money the team is worth the more they can pay their players.
Next Blog Post: In my next post I wanted to see how much the NFL is making off of media and what it does for their values of teams.

Mario Williams- static.nfl.com