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PHDram
while second contracts for good players are certainly higher on average than their non-second year counterparts, the idea that every second contract for every "starter" just keeps going up and up is nonsense. the data just doesnt support this theory. players ultimately get paid commensurate to their age, production, and skill level. ill concede however that the likely exception to that is the qb position.
No in fact it's completely true, and you never managed to prove otherwise.
Look at qb contracts.
And it makes no sense to talk about "age" when it comes to 2nd contracts (you are confusing 2nd contracts with 3rd and 4th contracts).
"Skill level" is completely subjective. Who is better, Evans, Watkins, or Cook? Yet they all got around the same 16 M 2nd contract rate in their year.
Some guys are just simply not considered franchise starters and they get less than the norm. That's absolutely true of qb--where guys like Newton, Luck, Wilson, Cousins, Carr, Dalton, Garoppolo, Wentz, and Goff all got their year's starting qb rate, while the guys who DIDN'T were all iffy as franchise qbs: Tannenhill, Bortles, Griffen, Bridgewater, Ponder, Gabbert, Locker, Weedon, Manual, Manziel.
That's an absolutely clear distinction.