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By contrast, Darren Sproles who is a similar type of player but better, signed a 2 year deal a couple years ago with $5.5M guaranteed and about 1/3 the average annual salary.
You seem confused about a few things:
1) The timeline. Yes, Sproles made less two years ago when he signed his contract than Austin will for a contract that goes into effect in two years. That is at least four years difference if you are counting.
2) Different position and status. Change of pace RBs tend to make less than starting WRs, in general.
3) Age disparity. Seriously? Sproles was not only a RB, but a THIRTY ONE YEAR OLD RB at the time he signed that contract (if in fact it was two years ago). The same age blind spot that prevented you from realizing Ginn was an inept example seems to be at work here. Why not just incoherently use the oldest players in the league at any random position and compare them to an ascendant 25 year old WR coming off a career best season?
You're right, maybe I'm confused because...
1) I figured people could do the simple math on the massive discrepancy in AAV of the their extensions without having to do it for them or explain that a few years of NFL wage inflation can't possibly come close to accounting for it. I apparently was wrong, at least in the case of one.
2) Starting WR not because he's a starting quality WR, but because he's a change of pace RB playing WR.
3) I obviously misjudged some people's ability to understand that the premise of paying a "change of pace" gadget player like a franchise WR because they scored 10 TD's is, well a premise of paying a change of pace gadget player like a franchise WR because they scored 10 TD's. It never occurred to me that since the change of pace gadget player in question was young and far less accomplished, some posters would think it was about something other than that. Confused as charged.