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(08-03-2024, 04:18 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: You are right starting life … except he’s on a 1 year deal. Backups usually are young players because don’t vets have to be paid more?

Think it's a bit like backup QBs. If you're getting one of the top backups, you're willing to spend $4-7m on a proven vet backup. Otherwise you go $900k-$2m who are generally younger and you save money.

If you have a young unproven OT or a guy with injury concerns, it pays to have a vet backup who you are sure brings a certain floor. People are spending too much on QBs.

La'el Collins is still in the NFL and he's making $1.75m to be a backup for the Bills. The extra ~$750k over a rookie contract to make sure your $45-55m/yr QB has a certain floor of production (while saving you the draft pick to use elsewhere) doesn't seem like a real burden. There's still plenty of teams that are using young guys as backups, but there's enough demand that solid vet OTs (even more so swing OTs) will not have a hard time finding work as a backup.