In an article listing the most overpaid player for every team in the NFL, outside linebacker Harold Landry was the choice for the Tennessee Titans, according to Bleacher Report’s Brad Gagnon.
Gagnon writes that Landry is “good but not great” and that he’s tallied sack numbers that “make him look like a more impactful player than he is.”
Here’s Gagnon’s entire write-up:
Good not great, and with sack numbers that make him look like a more impactful player than he is. The 27-year-old has had one standout season out of five, and he’ll cost an average of just under $24 million against the cap in the next three seasons.
After signing a five-year, $87.5 million deal during the 2022 offseason, it’s been hard to truly gauge just how much Landry has been worth it.
After all, he suffered a torn ACL prior to the first season of his new deal, and spent the second campaign trying to round back into form from it, which he appeared to do down the stretch.
Landry finished with 10.5 sacks, the second-most of his career. Also bear in mind, he got the contract coming off a season in which he had a career-high 12 sacks.
Knowing all that, it’s really unfair to call him overpaid quite yet — but if not Landry, then who?
On the lower end, you could go with either cornerback Caleb Farley or wide receiver Treylon Burks, both of whom are making first-rounder salaries but haven’t done much of anything. However, neither one costs very much, as Farley accounts for a cap hit of $4.2 million in 2024, and Burks is $3.9 million.
In terms of the big-salary players, an argument can be made for safety Amani Hooker, who has failed to play an entire slate in each of the past three years.
Hooker, who accounts for a cap hit of $9.3 million in 2024, was awarded with a three-year, $30 million deal in 2022. Since then he’s missed eight and four games the past two seasons. Before that, he missed five games in 2021.
Since signing his deal, he has just two picks and 10 passes defensed in that span, including one interception and seven passes defensed in 2023, which was the first year of his new deal.
That said, Hooker has been one of the bright spots for the Titans in their secondary when on the field and has been one of the lone sources of turnovers (he has two forced and recovered fumbles since 2022).
However, the bar has been quite low to stand out in the Titans’ secondary the past few seasons, so that isn’t saying much.
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