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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Eh.
The entire NFL pay structure is based on supply and demand. There's a TON of people willing to pay a lot of money to watch football and that drives money into the system.
If that quality is poor, they won't get all that money so they only employ the best in the world. They don't pay them on the bases of the pounding they take, they pay them based on how rare they are.
Well RBs are just fungible. As noted, the SB featured two guys plucked off the scrap heap.
I see no need to start creating specialized caps for RBs because if you're gonna do that, you really have no excuse not to do one for the opposite reason for QBs as well. And if I'm any other position group I wonder why the hell my earnings are being reduced by not having a special tier for me.
Nah - if you want to be paid more and have the ability play another position at the highest level, then do that. If not - well the market is what it is.
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Not really. You have a salary cap and a players union.
If it was truly supply and demand, Mahomes would make $80m at the expense of others. And undrafted free agents would play for well below the rookie minimum (because they would). Practice guys would likely play for half of what they make if that's what it took for their shot.
And in a free market, guys like Tepper, Kahn and Jerry Jones who could and likely would double or tripple their current salary expenditures.