Top 25 Players - 2005 salaries

[GrnBay007]

Rank/ Player Salary/ Team

1 Vick, Michael $ 23,102,750 Atlanta Falcons
2 Hasselbeck, Matt $ 19,005,280 Seattle Seahawks
3 Pace, Orlando $ 18,000,000 St. Louis Rams
4 Jones, Walter $ 17,701,320 Seattle Seahawks
5 Brady, Tom $ 15,654,180 New England Patriots
6 Bailey, Champ $ 13,507,625 Denver Broncos
7 Smoot, Fred $ 12,300,000 Minnesota Vikings
8 Rolle, Samari $ 12,000,990 Baltimore Ravens
9 Henry, Anthony $ 11,604,840 Dallas Cowboys
10 Ogden, Jonathan $ 10,665,550 Baltimore Ravens
11 Stroud, Marcus $ 10,640,000 Jacksonville Jaguars
12 Woodson, Charles $ 10,537,000 Oakland Raiders
13 Baxter, Gary $ 10,510,698 Cleveland Browns
14 Bulluck, Keith $ 10,251,980 Tennessee Titans
15 Johnson, Rudi $ 10,250,000 Cincinnati Bengals
16 Samuels, Chris $ 9,550,000 Washington Redskins
17 Favre, Brett $ 9,500,000 Green Bay Packers
18 Roethlisberger, Ben $ 9,498,840 Pittsburgh Steelers
19 Lucas, Ken $ 9,400,000 Carolina Panthers
20 Muhammad, Muhsin $ 9,335,407 Chicago Bears
21 Manning, Eli $ 9,305,000 New York Giants
22 Rivera, Marco $ 9,130,280 Dallas Cowboys
23 Ferguson, Jason $ 9,129,290 Dallas Cowboys
24 Wahle, Mike $ 9,100,000 Carolina Panthers
25 James, Edgerrin $ 9,081,000 Indianapolis Colts

[Jimx29]

good gawd.....24m for vick


the apocalypse is upon us

[Patler]

Looks like the USA Today salary numbers for 2005. It is a bit confusing because they report all cash received in the year received. Therefore the numbers you listed include 100% of any bonus in the year it is paid. As a result, the top of the list always includes those players who signed contracts that year and received large signing bonuses.

To explain, in the following the first number is the USA Today "salary" the second number is the cap value:

Vick - 23,102,750 ... 7,995,607
Hasselbeck - 19,005,280 ... 6,205,280
Eli Manning - 9,305,000 ... 3,760,000
Favre - 9,500,000 ... 10,133,333

Note that Favre's cap number was actually higher than the USA "salary" reported. The same would apply to others who didn't receive a significant bonus that year. An even more extreme example:

Peyton Manning per USA Today:
salary - $ 668,520
cap value- $8,435,186
That's because his bonus was paid in 2004. That year they have his "salary" as $35,037,700!

[Deputy Nutz]

A combined 19 million dollars for Rivera and Wahle. Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints?

[Patler]

A combined 19 million dollars for Rivera and Wahle. Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints?

Yes, because of their signing bonuses. They had cap values of $2,630,280 and $2,700,00, respectively.

[PaCkFan_n_MD]

A combined 19 million dollars for Rivera and Wahle. Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints?

That should shut some people up who say, why the fuck didn't we sign whale.

[sepporepi]

I think the cap number ist far more important than the the actual "cash number" in a year. (At least for the team )
Every NFL-Team (at least the serious ones) has basically an unlimited amount of cash available (GB has about 130mil in a reserve), so it would not have been a problem to pay 20 or even 40 mil to Wahle and Rivera.
But it would have been a big problem to structure it the way it fits the salary cap, especially without the raise.
The bigger question for the teams without a billionare as owner is whether the player is worth it or not. But as long the players delivers on the field we can him as much upfront as we want from a cash standpoint.

For the player of curse the cash number is far more interesting, since that is his new money at the bank .

P.S. Remeber we burnd about 8mil for coaches not on our team anymore last saison. And is it a big deal? for me it is, but no one else seems to care.
Or were there some critical questions about it at the owner meeting?

[GBRulz]

Was reading this on SI.com about the top 50 money makers in sports. Favre was #31. Salary of $10 mil, but said $7 mil in endorsements. Sensodyne must be paying him a pretty penny, because I don't know of any other current endorsements that he's doing.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/specials/fortunate50/index.html

This is too graphic intensive, or I would just put the list itself on here...

[Guiness]

What about Starter? Has he done anymore of those wonderful exhibitions of acting for them?

Wow those were awful.