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
1Jalon WalkerEDGEGeorgia97%$16.5M-$25.3M
2Kenneth GrantDTMichigan87%$16.0M-$24.5M
3Mike GreenEDGEMarshall95%$14.2M-$21.7M
4Mason GrahamDTMichigan93%$14.1M-$21.6M
5Donovan EzeiruakuEDGEBoston Col.95%$13.7M-$21.0M
6Abdul CarterEDGEPenn St.89%$12.6M-$19.3M
7Mykel WilliamsDLGeorgia95%$11.4M-$17.4M
8Derrick HarmonDTOregon79%$13.0M-$19.9M
9Walter NolenDTMississippi85%$12.1M-$18.5M
10Jihaad CampbellLBAlabama81%$12.1M-$18.6M
11Shemar StewartEDGETexas A&M75%$12.5M-$19.2M
12JT TuimoloauEDGEOhio St.83%$10.5M-$16.0M
13James PearceEDGETennessee73%$11.0M-$16.9M
14Landon JacksonEDGEArkansas82%$9.7M-$14.8M
15Darius AlexanderDTToledo74%$10.5M-$16.1M
16Carson SchwesingerLBUCLA83%$8.4M-$12.8M
17Josaiah StewartEDGEMichigan87%$7.8M-$12.0M
18Tyleik WilliamsDTOhio St.72%$9.4M-$14.4M
19Nic ScourtonEDGETexas A&M88%$7.5M-$11.5M
20Ashton GillotteEDGELouisville81%$8.0M-$12.2M
21Oluwafemi OladejoEDGEUCLA78%$7.9M-$12.1M
22Chris PaulLBMississippi74%$8.1M-$12.5M
23Jalen McLeodEDGEAuburn78%$7.2M-$11.0M
24Deone WalkerDTKentucky66%$7.7M-$11.8M
25Demetrius KnightLBSouth Carolina71%$7.2M-$11.0M
26Jeffrey BassaLBOregon60%$7.8M-$11.9M
27Bradyn SwinsonEDGELSU70%$6.6M-$10.0M
28Jack SawyerEDGEOhio St.71%$6.0M-$9.3M
29Danny StutsmanLBOklahoma54%$7.5M-$11.5M
30Sai'vion JonesEDGELSU61%$6.1M-$9.4M
31T.J. SandersDTSouth Carolina52%$6.8M-$10.3M
32Francisco MauigoaLBMiami (FL)65%$5.4M-$8.3M
33Kyle KennardEDGESouth Carolina53%$6.6M-$10.2M
34Kain MedranoLBUCLA62%$5.3M-$8.1M
35Shemar JamesLBFlorida58%$5.6M-$8.6M
36Rylie MillsDLNotre Dame69%$4.6M-$7.1M
37Smael MondonLBGeorgia55%$5.3M-$8.2M
38Jordan BurchEDGEOregon55%$5.3M-$8.2M
39Princely UmanmielenEDGEMississippi40%$7.3M-$11.1M
40Alfred CollinsDTTexas40%$7.1M-$10.9M
41Vernon BroughtonDTTexas56%$5.1M-$7.8M
42Antwaun Powell-RylandEDGEVirginia Tech46%$5.9M-$9.0M
43Kobe KingLBPenn St.47%$5.2M-$8.0M
44Shemar TurnerEDGETexas A&M55%$4.5M-$6.8M
45Nick MartinLBOklahoma St.42%$5.8M-$8.9M
46Cody SimonLBOhio St.45%$4.8M-$7.4M
47Kyonte HamiltonDLRutgers36%$6.0M-$9.2M
48Teddye BuchananLBCalifornia49%$4.3M-$6.6M
49Barryn SorrellEDGETexas39%$5.4M-$8.2M
50Tyler BaronEDGEMiami (FL)39%$5.2M-$8.0M
51Tonka HemingwayDTSouth Carolina47%$4.0M-$6.2M
52CJ WestDTIndiana65%$2.9M-$4.4M
53Jamaree CaldwellDTOregon31%$6.0M-$9.2M
54Ruben HyppoliteLBMaryland39%$4.8M-$7.3M
55Ty RobinsonDTNebraska34%$5.2M-$7.9M
56Jack KiserLBNotre Dame37%$4.8M-$7.3M
57Jordan PhillipsDLMaryland47%$3.5M-$5.4M
58Omarr Norman-LottDTTennessee43%$3.6M-$5.5M
59Carson BruenerLBWashington33%$4.7M-$7.2M
60Cam JacksonDTFlorida42%$3.4M-$5.3M
61Elijah RobertsDTSMU38%$3.7M-$5.6M
62David WalkerOLBCentral Arkansas29%$4.7M-$7.2M
63Barrett CarterLBClemson32%$4.2M-$6.4M
64Jay ToiaDTUCLA23%$5.2M-$8.0M
65Tyrion Ingram-DawkinsEDGEGeorgia33%$3.4M-$5.2M
66Cody LindenbergLBMinnesota20%$5.5M-$8.4M
67Ty HamiltonDTOhio St.34%$3.1M-$4.8M
68Warren BrinsonDLGeorgia29%$3.5M-$5.4M
69Quandarrius RobinsonLBAlabama23%$4.2M-$6.4M
70Fadil DiggsEDGESyracuse11%$5.6M-$8.6M
71Collin OliverEDGEOklahoma St.11%$4.5M-$6.8M
72Joshua FarmerDTFlorida St.14%$3.0M-$4.6M
73Yahya BlackDTIowa10%$3.9M-$5.9M
74Zeek BiggersDLGeorgia Tech9%$3.9M-$5.9M
75JJ PeguesDTMississippi14%$2.4M-$3.7M
76Tommy AkingbesoteDTMaryland11%$2.2M-$3.4M
77Aeneas PeeblesDTVirginia Tech10%$2.2M-$3.3M
78Tim SmithDLAlabama9%$2.3M-$3.6M
79Ahmed HassaneinEDGEBoise St.4%$2.6M-$4.0M

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.