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1. Jake Long, Offensive Tackle
Not exactly the kind of season you want to have in a contract year. Long battled injury and looked a long way off the elite tackle who had graced the league in his first three campaigns as a Dolphin. Missing time didn’t help, but the problems started a long way before that with Long finishing only 21st in our Pass Blocking Efficiency metric. Coupled with a negative run blocking grade, Long was never going to live up to the big cap hit.
2012 Cap Hit: $12.8m
2012 Performance Based Value: $1.2m
Value Differential: -$11.6m
2. Karlos Dansby, Linebacker
This isn’t a reflection on the play of Dansby, but rather the pay afforded to him. Indeed Dansby would finish the year our fifth-ranked middle linebacker with his work in run defense particularly impressive. But for a linebacker to be worth that kind of cap hit you really need to see them doing a lot more.
2012 Cap Hit: $11.3m
2012 Performance Based Value: $7m
Value Differential: -$4.3m
3. Reggie Bush, Running Back
Bush failed to turn his 227 carries into a 1,000 yard season and he failed to justify his big $6 million cap hit. His fumbles (four of them) were a big problem and he didn’t have the sort of impact in the passing game that would make it impossible for the Dolphins to let him hit free agency. At his core he remains the same back who goes searching for space to do his best work.
2012 Cap Hit: $6m
2012 Performance Based Value: $1.7m
Value Differential: -$4.3m
4. Tony McDaniel, DT – Cap: $4.2m, PBV: $825k, Value Differential: -$3.3m
5. Matt Moore, QB – Cap: $3.8m, PBV: $700k, Value Differential: -$3.1m
6. Richard Marshall, CB – Cap: $3.7m, PBV: $825k, Value Differential: -$2.9m
7. Jared Odrick, DE – Cap: $3.1m, PBV: $940k, Value Differential: -$2.2m
8. Paul Soliai, DT – Cap: $4.1m, PBV: $2.2m, Value Differential: -$1.9m
9. Randy Starks, DT – Cap: $5m, PBV: $3.1m, Value Differential: -$1.9m
10. Richie Incognito, OG – Cap: $4.9m, PBV: $3.8m, Value Differential: -$1.1m
(* Denotes player missed significant portion of time through injury)
https://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2 ... -dolphins/