Draftanomics

AAV rankings

Two numbers per prospect, because a second contract is two bets. The odds column is the chance he earns a second NFL deal at all, priced at draft time — about 87 percent of first-rounders do, about 22 percent of seventh-rounders. The dollar figure is the deal's average annual value — the AAV in the page title — what it pays per season if it happens, in today's cap dollars, built from every real second contract signed by the 2015–2023 classes. We show them separately rather than blending them into one expected value: nobody signs the average of $60 million and nothing. The order does multiply them, though — a $17 million projection you collect one time in five is not worth more than a $17 million projection you collect almost surely, so the rank is odds × dollars even though the columns stay separate. For classes already through the league, compare the projection with what the player actually signed — both translated to the current cap, so a 2015 deal and a 2022 deal sit on the same scale.

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#PlayerPosCollege2nd-deal oddsAAV if signedActualDiff
1Spencer FanoOTUtah83%$16.4M-$25.0M
2Kadyn ProctorOTAlabama81%$15.1M-$23.2M
3Monroe FreelingOTGeorgia88%$13.7M-$20.9M
4Caleb LomuOTUtah83%$14.4M-$22.0M
5Emmanuel PregnonGOregon86%$12.9M-$19.8M
6Jalen FarmerGKentucky87%$12.3M-$18.8M
7Francis MauigoaOTMiami (FL)81%$13.2M-$20.2M
8Olaivavega IoaneGPenn St.92%$11.3M-$17.4M
9Caleb TiernanOTNorthwestern86%$9.1M-$14.0M
10Connor LewCAuburn76%$9.5M-$14.5M
11Keylan RutledgeGGeorgia Tech90%$7.7M-$11.8M
12Chase BisontisGTexas A&M83%$7.5M-$11.5M
13Austin BarberOTFlorida85%$7.2M-$11.0M
14Fernando CarmonaGArkansas80%$6.6M-$10.1M
15Jude BowryOTBoston Col.63%$8.2M-$12.6M
16Brian Parker IIOTDuke81%$6.3M-$9.6M
17Max IheanachorOTArizona St.82%$6.1M-$9.4M
18Keagen TrostOLMissouri69%$7.3M-$11.2M
19Dametrious CrownoverOTTexas A&M81%$6.0M-$9.2M
20Drew SheltonOTPenn St.61%$7.9M-$12.0M
21Enrique Cruz Jr.OLKansas57%$7.8M-$11.9M
22Logan TaylorGBoston Col.59%$7.5M-$11.5M
23Kage CaseyOTBoise St.70%$6.1M-$9.4M
24Markel BellOTMiami (FL)54%$7.5M-$11.4M
25Sam HechtCKansas St.51%$7.8M-$11.9M
26Anez CooperGMiami (FL)50%$7.8M-$12.0M
27Gennings DunkerOTIowa59%$6.6M-$10.1M
28Alex HarkeyOTOregon43%$7.5M-$11.5M
29Jeremiah WrightGAuburn42%$7.0M-$10.7M
30Billy SchrauthGNotre Dame54%$5.4M-$8.3M
31Carver WillisOLWashington50%$5.7M-$8.8M
32Jager BurtonCKentucky41%$6.6M-$10.1M
33Travis BurkeOTMemphis51%$5.2M-$8.0M
34Beau StephensGIowa49%$5.5M-$8.5M
35Febechi NwaiwuOLOklahoma75%$3.5M-$5.4M
36Jayden WilliamsOLMississippi49%$4.7M-$7.2M
37Ethan OnianwaGOhio St.47%$4.8M-$7.3M
38Matt GulbinOLMichigan St.49%$4.3M-$6.6M
39Gavin GerhardtOLCincinnati20%$6.2M-$9.6M
40Evan BeerntsenOLNorthwestern16%$5.0M-$7.7M

How these numbers are made. Two models, both built from real second contracts (as logged by Over the Cap) signed by the 2015–2023 draft classes. The odds column asks one question — does a drafted player earn a second NFL deal? — using only what is knowable on draft night: projected slot, bust risk, size, position. Tested on draft classes it never saw, it lands within a few points of the real round-by-round rates. The dollar column projects what the deal pays as a slice of that year's salary cap, then converts to today's cap — so it answers “what does the deal look like if he earns one,” not a blended expectation. Prospects who haven't played an NFL snap are projected on draft-night information alone; prospects who never cracked the consensus board get the rookie-scale figure and no odds, because the model has nothing honest to say about them. See methodology for how closely the projected odds track what actually happened.