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2017 Tight End Contracts and Salaries | Over The Cap
The link above has Allen as the 17th highest paid TE in football.
Now I know it's not going to be a perfect world in which each year the highest paid players will be at the top of the stat leaderboards, but they will be partially judged on it (whether fair or not). After all, in football the salary cap is obviously a huge factor. That's why value is such a key component, and obviously production and salary are the main factors of value. So when you spend money on a guy you expect production.
Obviously whether or not he is living up to expectations is a discussion all in itself, but salary is certainly a factor in the conversation.
Danny Amendola is a perfect example. We all love Amendola for his production in big games and being a great depth player, but our perspective of him wouldn't be as rosy if he was still getting being paid more than guys like Edelman. (Even though he's resourceful, if he was making more than Edelman then he'd still be underperforming his contract and I bet BB would have cut him due to him being bad value, even if he is a good player).
I didn't realize Allen was only getting paid 5 million this season, and is only getting paid 5 million next season.
For some reason I thought Allen was getting paid like 6.5 this season, and it was going to up to 7 and 8 the next two seasons. With the price we're paying him, if Allen becomes a serviceable receiver, 5 million is a very good deal for the Pats.
And then you look at Eric Ebron's contract who a few people on here were clamoring for. His contract goes up to 8.25 million next season. But they were fine with that and cutting Allen?!?!?!?