League-wide player market, contract length strategy, and coach contract-outcome charts using the reported amounts preserved in the SRL archive. Player-market charts use the latest recorded contract entry for each player through the selected season.
View this information by franchiseOpen a franchise page for its recorded player market, top salaries by position, and contract-length strategy across its connected history.
Read this correctly: SRL records preserve reported contract totals and stated terms, not complete annual RSO cap charges. “Annualized” means reported total divided by the stated term. It is useful for comparing the recorded market, but it is not a confirmed cap hit, guarantee, dead-money figure, or inherited-contract allocation.
Recorded contract actions
144Entered in 2021
Reported commitment total
$1,311,302,000All contract records entered in 2021
Average reported total
$9,106,264Per contract record in 2021
Latest ledger annualized avg.
$4,534,214362 latest player ledger records through 2021
Largest Reported Player Commitments
Latest recorded ledger entry per player, through 2021. Total reported contract amount.
Josh Allen · QB
$195,500,000
Derrick Henry · RB
$168,500,000
Patrick Mahomes · QB
$155,000,000
Lamar Jackson · QB
$150,500,000
Saquon Barkley · RB
$150,000,000
Ezekiel Elliott · RB
$145,500,000
Christian McCaffrey · RB
$143,500,000
Aaron Rodgers · QB
$138,500,000
Nick Chubb · RB
$136,500,000
Kyler Murray · QB
$132,000,000
The team displayed in detailed tables is the team attached to that latest entered record, not necessarily a player’s present real-world roster.
Top-Five Position Market
Average annualized reported commitment among the five largest annualized records at each position.
QB · top 5
$41,083,333/yr
RB · top 5
$37,200,000/yr
WR · top 5
$32,083,333/yr
TE · top 5
$11,466,667/yr
LB · top 5
$4,391,667/yr
DE · top 5
$3,475,000/yr
S · top 5
$2,075,000/yr
PK · top 5
$1,100,000/yr
DT · top 3
$833,333/yr
CB · top 1
$500,000/yr
The five-player sample becomes smaller for positions with fewer than five latest recorded contract entries.
Contract Length Strategy
Latest recorded contract entry for each player through 2021.
Market Contracts: Exact one-year / $500K minimum contracts are excluded from the strategy calculations below.
Deal-count average term2.29 yrs
Commitment-weighted term3.28 yrs
4+ year commitments35
Minimum deals excluded177
1 year · 59 players
$149,802,000
2 years · 49 players
$727,000,000
3 years · 42 players
$1,391,500,000
4+ years · 35 players
$2,303,000,000
Term not supplied · 0 players
$0
Bar length = player count. Right column = total reported commitment in that stated-term group.
Minimum contract activity: 177 exact one-year / $500K latest-ledger records, totaling $88,500,000. These are shown separately because they often reflect roster-depth activity rather than long-range contract strategy.
Term by Position
Commitment-weighted stated years by position in the market contracts view.
RB · 40 players
3.51 yrs
QB · 31 players
3.42 yrs
TE · 10 players
2.97 yrs
WR · 52 players
2.94 yrs
LB · 27 players
2.63 yrs
DE · 12 players
2.58 yrs
S · 10 players
2.49 yrs
DT · 1 players
1.00 yrs
PK · 2 players
1.00 yrs
The weighted measure lets a multi-year major commitment matter more than a low-dollar one-year depth contract.
Largest Four-Year-Plus Deals
Largest latest-ledger commitments with a stated term of four years or more.
Josh Allen · QB · 4 yr
$195,500,000
Derrick Henry · RB · 4 yr
$168,500,000
Patrick Mahomes · QB · 4 yr
$155,000,000
Saquon Barkley · RB · 4 yr
$150,000,000
Ezekiel Elliott · RB · 4 yr
$145,500,000
Christian McCaffrey · RB · 4 yr
$143,500,000
Aaron Rodgers · QB · 4 yr
$138,500,000
Nick Chubb · RB · 4 yr
$136,500,000
Position Spotlight
Compare the five largest annualized reported commitments at one position.
New reported contract records entered in the selected season, grouped by original team on the record.
North Dakota Rig Pigs
$392,000,000
San Antonio Titans
$266,802,000
Kentucky C-Force
$232,000,000
Cleveland Crawfish
$214,000,000
Fussa Kitsune
$84,000,000
Texas Slayers
$56,000,000
West Virginia Copperheads
$38,000,000
Amherst Mighty Ducks
$13,000,000
Philly Bandits
$8,500,000
Denver Mud Dawgs
$7,000,000
Auction Market Through 2021
Total reported auction award amount by season. Extensions, tags, and rookie options are not included in this historical auction view.
2019 · 270 awards
$3,543,000,000
2020 · 180 awards
$1,105,000,000
2021 · 137 awards
$608,000,000
2021 Contract Record Mix
A quick audit of the types and terms preserved for this selected season.
Free Agent Auction · 137 records$608,000,000
Contract Extension · 5 records$536,000,000
Tag Extension · 1 records$136,500,000
Rookie Option · 1 records$30,802,000
1 year · 98 records$112,302,000
2 years · 21 records$187,500,000
3 years · 11 records$93,500,000
4+ years · 14 records$918,000,000
Term not supplied · 0 records$0
Championship Build Profiles
What each Standout Bowl winner documented in new contract and auction commitments during its title season.
Not cap space: these are same-season recorded contract and auction commitments, ranked only against that season’s SRL teams. The archive does not contain a full annual RSO cap ledger, inherited allocations, dead money, or actual remaining cap space.
Patrick MahomesWest Virginia Copperheads · $155,000,000
25 / 270 · 9%
2020
180
$1,105,000,000
$6,138,889
Lamar JacksonKentucky C-6 · $150,500,000
31 / 180 · 17%
2021
137
$608,000,000
$4,437,956
Stefon DiggsNorth Dakota Rig Pigs · $75,000,000
20 / 137 · 15%
Auction amounts represent recorded winning bids. The long-term rate is based on stated three-year-or-longer auction awards, not a measure of current roster status.
2021 Original Contract Records
Top five by reported total. 144 preserved records are available below.
Reported contract amounts are preserved from the original source. The archive shows annual cap hit, guarantees, dead money, extension terms, and option decisions only when those SRL values were supplied.
Coach Contract Outcomes
Top five by the selected outcome measure. The complete list is available below.
Recorded contract dollars per regular-season win. Every coach with at least one regular-season win. Lower figures mean fewer recorded contract dollars for each win. Recorded contract dollars are the auction, extension, tag, and option amounts captured here—not a reconstructed annual cap ledger. Inherited obligations, dead money, and trade allocations are unavailable.
