Joe Mixon May Hold Out

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(04-16-2020, 08:19 PM)Whatever Wrote: 4 of the 10 highest paid WR's in the NFL had their teams make the playoffs last year.  Hopkins, Watkins, Thielen, and Adams. 2 of the ones that didn't make the playoffs didn't play a down all year(Antonio Brown and AJ Green). 3 of the 10 highest paid RB's had their teams make the playoffs, but two of those(Lamar Miller and Jerick McKinnon) didn't play a single down for their respective clubs and Dion Lewis only had 227 total yards from scrimmage behind Henry.  It should also be noted that the Rams had both a Top 10 RB and WR and missed the playoffs.

Basically, teams with highly paid WR's performed better and those WR's did more to aid their teams success than their RB counterparts.

While a strong run game is important, paying top dollar on 2nd contracts for RB's isn't the way to accomplish it.  RB's drop off too quickly and are typically used up by the time they get that 2nd contract and get outperformed by their younger, cheaper counterparts.  You invest your money in your OL for 2nd contracts and draft replacements for RB's with expiring deals.

It's funny you mentioned this, because in my statistics class I did comparison of the rushing vs passing attempts the past 10 years. Teams pass the ball over 3,000 times more per year than they run the ball, so it makes sense that WR have a bigger impact in the game than RB

Tried uploading graph, but it was ugly. let me try to upload it to imgur.

Edit: at work, won't let me visit imgur. here's the sample data from 2009-2019

Rushing attempts

2009-13488
13321
13871
13688
13387
13925
13272
13755
13971
13920
2019-14088
Passing attempts

2009-18298
18295
18136
17879
17853
17788
17671
17488
17410
17269
2019-17033