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
1Dillon ThienemanSOregon97%$18.4M-$28.2M
2Avieon TerrellCBClemson95%$12.6M-$19.3M
3Caleb DownsSOhio St.97%$11.5M-$17.6M
4D'Angelo PondsCBIndiana97%$11.4M-$17.4M
5Mansoor DelaneCBLSU93%$10.0M-$15.3M
6Chandler RiversCBDuke97%$9.2M-$14.1M
7Jermod McCoyCBTennessee91%$9.0M-$13.7M
8Treydan StukesCBArizona86%$9.2M-$14.1M
9Michael TaaffeSTexas77%$10.0M-$15.3M
10Daylen EveretteCBGeorgia65%$10.6M-$16.3M
11Brandon CisseCBSouth Carolina87%$7.9M-$12.0M
12Emmanuel McNeil-WarrenSToledo97%$6.8M-$10.4M
13Colton HoodCBTennessee73%$9.1M-$14.0M
14Keith Abney IICBArizona St.86%$7.1M-$10.9M
15Malik MuhammadCBTexas97%$5.7M-$8.8M
16Cole WisniewskiSTexas Tech92%$5.9M-$9.0M
17Kamari RamseySUSC83%$6.5M-$10.0M
18Bud ClarkSTCU97%$5.2M-$7.9M
19Jalen HuskeySMaryland70%$7.1M-$10.9M
20Charles DemmingsCBStephen F. Austin74%$6.7M-$10.3M
21A.J. HaulcySLSU95%$4.8M-$7.4M
22Will Lee IIICBTexas A&M77%$5.8M-$8.9M
23VJ PayneSKansas St.94%$4.8M-$7.3M
24Miles ScottSIllinois66%$6.7M-$10.3M
25Zakee WheatleySPenn St.95%$4.6M-$7.0M
26Dalton JohnsonSArizona92%$4.1M-$6.2M
27Genesis SmithSArizona72%$4.6M-$7.1M
28Tacario DavisCBWashington34%$9.3M-$14.3M
29Jakobe ThomasSMiami (FL)74%$3.9M-$5.9M
30Keionte ScottCBMiami (FL)41%$6.5M-$9.9M
31Julian NealCBArkansas54%$4.2M-$6.4M
32Jadon CanadyCBOregon26%$8.5M-$13.1M
33Lorenzo Styles Jr.SOhio St.51%$4.3M-$6.5M
34Domani JacksonCBAlabama35%$5.2M-$8.0M
35TJ HallCBIowa30%$4.0M-$6.2M
36Devin MooreCBFlorida19%$4.4M-$6.7M
37Karon PruntyCBWake Forest31%$2.6M-$4.0M
38Jalon KilgoreCBSouth Carolina14%$5.5M-$8.4M
39Ephesians PrysockCBWashington16%$4.6M-$7.1M
40Michael DansbyCBArizona12%$3.0M-$4.5M
41Andre FullerCBToledo10%$2.6M-$4.0M
42Toriano Pride Jr.CBMissouri6%$4.5M-$6.9M
43Hezekiah MassesCBCalifornia5%$5.5M-$8.4M

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.