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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
You believe Eric Berry has been the best safety in football every year for the last 6 years? Because at $10 million/season, he's been paid as the best safety in football.
He's unquestionably been overpaid.
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He was paid the market value for his draft selection at the time. He has lived up to that contract when healthy. He had his ACL torn by a dirty play and he had cancer. Both of those issues were beyond his control.
Berry is one of the best safeties in football. Is he THE best? That is hard to judge because they are all asked to do different things. IMO, Berry is asked to do more than any safety in the league. At times he's asked to play in the box and act like an extra linebacker, at other times he's been asked to play man to man coverage on elite tight ends, and at other times he's been asked to play deep centerfield as a one high safety. He's the Swiss Army knife of safeties and more versatile than any of the other elite safeties in the league.