(07-27-2023, 08:16 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote: Exactly, they just have to stay healthy and play at a high level and they will get their money.

....while the team runs them into the dirt, drafts their replacement before the first contract expires, and everyone else in the huddle makes exponentially more.

If only it were easy enough to just be the next Derrick Henry, Adrian Peterson or Ladanian Tomlinson.

Most guys aren't that - they are mid-level guys like D'Ernest Johnson, J. Hasty, etc. And unfortunately, there's almost always a new crop of those kinds of guys either playing in other leagues, darft eligible, or let go by their last team because they found a cheaper, comparable replacement.

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