(05-21-2024, 03:55 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(05-21-2024, 03:28 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: JR didn't get screwed - he got hurt. 

Happens to dozens of gifted players every year that may have had a very different financial outcome if healthy. 

Unfortunately - it's really bad business for teams to try to find ways to compensate every affordable player who ends up being productive for a time.  The league has their own contingency in place for this, even if it isn't as much as you seem to think they should get. 

Here's the league's performance based pay adjustments for the year 2020:

https://nflpaweb.blob.core.windows.net/w...0d3a106e82

You'll find James Robinson, Adam Gotsis, Tre Herndon and a few other Jags on cheap deals that saw a six figure bump from the league.
(Brock Purdy got $740K from this fund after his 2023 campaign)

Right.  That fund is based on snap count (but WAAHH I thought snap count was hard!).  In 2020 that fund bumped his pay for the year by about $250k to about $1 million dollars. We can assume with 1 accrued year he got a bigger bump in 2021.  But I can't find the list.  I don't think $5k per carry is enough.
In 2020 Jonathan Taylor was paid about $8k per carry simply because he was drafted higher.  Ezekiel Elliott got $25k per carry because he was drafted even higher than them.  Those are all rookie contracts.  All three players had between 230 and 250 carries. 
I just don't think draft status should count for that much.  Especially not when it's locked in for 4 years.