Revealing the highest-paid players on every NFL team

Updated



With the salary cap on the rise, contracts for the elite NFL players are starting to look like those in other sports.

Because of how the NFL's quirky salary cap system works, large contracts often come with large signing bonuses. The result is that the highest-paid players fluctuate from year-to-year and tends to favor those who signed deals recently.

Still, there is quite a disparity in how much different teams pay their highest-paid players.

Here are the 32 players who will make the most money on their teams this year, ranked by their total 2015 earnings.

FOX Sports' Colin Cowherd believes that pro sports shouldn't have salary caps:

The Herd: Professional Sports Should Get Rid of the Salary Cap
The Herd: Professional Sports Should Get Rid of the Salary Cap

Now check out what happened to the first-round picks in the infamous 2000 NFL Draft:

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? The first-round picks from Tom Brady's infamous 2000 NFL Draft

MORE ON BUSINESS INSIDER:
Kristaps Porzingis is blowing away the NBA world
How LeBron James spends his money

Advertisement