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LMU93
Focus much less on $XXM/year average and much more on the pure guaranteed $$ figure. For Von Miller it was $70M. Make that a number you can reasonably pay over 4 years and the rest is window dressing.
Guaranteed and annual amounts just measure different things.
If you want to know the general market range for a position or for an elite player at that position, you need annual averages. Don't do it that way and you just end up being murky.
When grading or assessing an individual contract, then, yes guaranteed amounts count.
But it doesn;t help you answer this question: what is the general expected range in any given year for a given position? To do that as I said you need annual averages. It makes for easier, clearer, more intuitively obvious comparisons.
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