If you have been thinking that perhaps the Raiders don’t have a lot of super stars on their roster, you’d be right about that.
The team has been relatively frugal of late. Nothing wrong with that. The best teams are often careful about not throwing big money at a handful of players at the expense of the ability to build the rest of the team.
One team that has not been real careful about that is the Cleveland Browns, who, today became the NFL’s leader in players with contracts that average $10 million per season.
Their 13 $10M+ contracts is more than TWICE that of the Raiders (6).
In fact, only eight teams in the NFL have fewer $10M+ APY contracts than the Raiders.
Here are the contract counts for each NFL team with an individual APY of $10.0 million or more. https://t.co/43jqPVKMGJ pic.twitter.com/D35qzTbD4X
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Not bad to be in the same range as the Chiefs. Although they have Patrick Mahomes and that means they have to sink as much in other star players as much as some teams do.
The Raiders have no such super star quarterback to make sense of their low big money contract numbers.
The six players the Raiders pay at least $10 million per year on average are:
Davante Adams – $28M
Christian Wilkins – $27.5M
Maxx Crosby – $23.5M
Kolton Miller – $18M
Gardner Minshew – $12.5M
Jakobi Meyers – $11M
Currently the Raiders have some $34.5 million in cap space, which is fifth most in the NFL.