When you hear the fact that an NFL team has upwards of $171 million to pay its players’ salaries, that seems like a crazy amount of money to us “regular folk.” But then you start thinking about how that pot of money has to be split among 53 players (meaning each salary averages just over $3 million if everyone was paid equally), and certain positions (like quarterback) make far more in salary than others (like the kicker). Still, as the saying goes, you might have to “rob Peter” in order to “pay Paul.” In other words: if someone is going to make more than average, then someone has to make less than average. And there are a lot of star players in the NFL who are making less than or equal to the average guys at their position. Here is our list of the 17 most underpaid NFL players:
