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Teams
Team ratings, starting lineups, depth charts and a full cap sheet for every club.
Players
Roles, trait badges and a play rating for every starter, next to what he is paid.
Contracts
What is really guaranteed, the cap hit each year, and what a cut or trade would cost.
Free agency
Whose contract ends next, how he is playing, and an estimate of his next deal.
2027 Draft
A consensus big board, a model mock and what each pick will cost.
Cap lab
Advanced contract analytics: traits, heat maps and roster health.
Cap 101
Dead money, void years, restructures and every other word on a contract page.
Play general manager.
Cut, re-sign and tag players, build a lineup, check a trade, and watch your cap and team rating change.
Model favorites
All awardsAwards watch
Results, margin and roster
Full rankingsPower rankings
Player cards
Biggest contracts in football
Market ring: how his yearly pay ranks at his position (99 = top). Security ring: how safe his money is, from guarantees, dead money and years left. Play ring: his 2026 play rating, from 40 to 99. Scroll sideways for more.
2027 NFL Draft · April 29 to May 1
Big board and mockTop of the draft board
Grade ring: PlainStats's 40 to 99 prospect grade. 2026 ring: his college production this season against the other prospects at his position.
All 32 teams
Who has cap room
Latest moves
All newsContract news
League-wide, 2026 cap hits
Tap a position to see its biggest contracts.
Where the money goes, by position
- Offense
- Defense
- Special teams
NFL news
NFL news, in plain English
Game results, injuries, coaching and front-office changes, league discipline and every contract move, each with a short note on what it means. Tap a team to open its cap page.
Team ratings, lineups and the 2026 salary cap
All 32 teams
Each team is rated from the play ratings of its starters, the players with the most snaps at every spot, then ranked against the league on the same 40 to 99 scale players use. Tap a team for its lineup, depth chart, stats and traits.
Tap a crest to open the team
Offense vs. defense
Dashed lines mark the middle of the league. Teams up and to the right are strong on both sides of the ball.
Highest-rated team in each area
Best in the league
Tap a column to sort · tap a row to open the team
Build your own rosterPower ratings
SKL: running back, receivers and tight end. DL: edge rushers and defensive tackles. DB: corners and safeties. ST: kicker and punter.
- Offense
- Defense
- Special teams
- Dead money
- Cap room
Awards watch and team power rankings
Awards and power rankings
PlainStats ranks every player and coach for the big awards using the same play ratings, stats and team ratings you see across the site, then turns the scores into odds. Tap an award to see the full race. Everything recalculates when a new week of stats lands.
How the scores work
All 32 teams ranked by a blend of results, scoring margin, roster strength and efficiency. Wins count, but so does how a team wins and how good its starters are, so a team can rank above or below its record.
Tap a crest to open the team
Results vs. roster
Up is better results (record and scoring margin). Right is a stronger roster and more efficient play. Teams below the diagonal are winning less than their talent suggests.
Biggest gaps between record and roster
Risers and fallers
Power rankings
Team power rankings
How the power score works
Every contract
Contracts
Read for you
Recent deals, broken down
Position market
Top quarterback contracts
Search the database
All players under contract
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Which contracts are paying off. Every player with enough snaps gets a market value: what teams pay today for a player who ranks where he ranks on the field at his position. Surplus is that value minus his yearly pay. Green means a team is getting more than it pays for.
Biggest surplus
Best value contracts
Paid well above how they play so far
Most overpaid
Surplus added up across every rated player
Best-run cap sheets
Bargains and overpaid count players $5M or more above or below their market value.
Every rated contract
Every player still on the contract he signed as a draft pick, from the 2022 to 2026 classes. First-round picks have a fifth-year team option, and any pick can sign an extension once he has played three seasons. Tap a player for his full page.
2024 first-round picks · teams decide by early May 2027
Fifth-year option decisions
The option adds a fully guaranteed 2028 season. Its price follows the CBA, roughly: the top-10 average salary at the position for picks 1 to 10, and the average of the 3rd to 25th highest for picks 11 to 32, before Pro Bowl bumps. PlainStats's read compares that price with what his play is worth on today's market.
Best play rating first
Extension watch
All rookie contracts
Draft data: nflverse draft picks, matched to contracts by name and team. A contract that runs one year longer than the rookie deal is treated as a picked-up fifth-year option; longer than that is an extension.
Front office tools
Play general manager
Offseason simulator · 2027
Plan your team's offseason
Release or restructure contracts, keep or tag your free agents, sign other teams' free agents and add your draft class. The cap math and the team rating update as you go, and your moves are saved in this browser for each team.
Your free agents
2027 contracts of $2M or more · biggest savings first
Releases and restructures
A release before June 1 counts all of his leftover signing bonus in 2027; after June 1 the rest moves to 2028. A restructure turns 2027 salary above the minimum into bonus spread over up to five years, lowering 2027 and adding to later years. Estimates use each contract's bonus proration and do not include guaranteed salary, which some deals have.
Players on other teams whose deals end after 2026
Sign free agents
Costs are a first-year cap hit, about 85% of the Est. next deal yearly average, since new contracts usually start low.
Projected picks
Draft class
Your 2027 cap
Where you stand
Any player, any team
Build a starting lineup
Tap a spot on the field, or a row in the list, to pick a player. Team ratings update as you go. Your lineup is saved in this browser.
Cut or keep
Cutting a player clears his pay, but any signing bonus not yet counted lands at once as dead money. A post-June 1 release splits that hit over two seasons.
Decode a headline
Type the numbers from a news report, in millions, to see the real yearly average, how much is guaranteed and what the bonus counts each season.
Compare two players
2026 season stats
Players on the field
Box-score stats for every player, this season and the three before it. Pick a season and a position; tap a column to sort. Tap a player under contract for his full page, including his season-by-season line and this year's game log.
Season stats
Regular season only, from nflverse weekly player stats. Fantasy points use PPR scoring. Offensive linemen are left out because box scores do not track blocking.
How each player is actually playing, set next to what he is paid. Every player gets a role, a play rating from 40 to 99, a rank at his position and trait badges, all built from this season's stats.
Ranked by play rating
Top players right now
How teams use them · tap to filter
Roles
Each player gets one role from how much he plays and what he is asked to do. The number is how many players have that role; "avg" is their average play rating.
Qualified players · tap a dot
Pay vs. play
Dashed lines mark the middle pay and the middle rating. Green dots play well above their pay rank; red dots are paid well above how they are playing so far.
Positional rankings
Trait badges · gold, silver, bronze
Traits
Gold is the top 6% of qualified players at the position in that skill, silver the top 16%, bronze the top 28%. Iron man, Clean sheet and Big leg are earned outright.
Advanced contract analytics
The cap lab
Every number here is a percentile against the league, so 90 means better than 90% of players at the same position, or 90% of teams. Tap any card, crest or cell to dig in.
Contract traits
Find a type of contract
32 teams × 15 positions · 2026 cap hits
Least Most
Spending heatmap, $M
Each cell shows what a team spends at a position, shaded by its rank among the 32 teams. Tap a column name to sort by it; tap a cell to see those players.
0 to 100, higher is healthier
Cap health rankings
Blends four percentiles: cap room, low dead money, money coming off the books after this season, and how evenly pay is spread beyond the top five contracts. The four small bars show each piece.
Doppelgänger finder
Contracts most like his
Pick a player and find the deals closest to his in yearly pay, guarantees, length, age and cap share, across the league.
Free agency tracker
Free agency
Every player whose contract ends after a given season, with how well he is playing and a PlainStats estimate of what his next deal could pay. Pick a class year, then filter by position or pay.
Best players with expiring deals
Top of the class
Tap a position to filter the table
Where the money is
Bars show the estimated yearly pay the players at each position could command on their next deals, for players earning at least the pay floor you pick below.
Which teams lose the most
Class by team
All pending free agents
Next-deal estimates rank each player by play rating among his position, read that rank's price off what the league pays today (Over The Cap's contract rankings, cross-checked with CBS Sports and Spotrac), adjust for his age when the deal starts, then grow it with the salary cap to the year he signs. They are PlainStats estimates, not reports.
What each team has left under the cap in future seasons after the contracts it has already signed. 2026 through 2028 come from Over The Cap; later years are built from every contract on this site.
Room under the cap
Projected cap space
Average team
Room by season
Tap a season to sort · tap a row to open the team
Less MoreCap space, every team, every year
2027 NFL Draft
The draft room
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The top college players for the April 2027 draft, ranked by combining public big boards. Each prospect gets the same treatment as an NFL player on PlainStats: a grade, a role, trait badges and his 2026 college numbers, plus what his rookie contract would cost.
Tap a prospect for his full page
Top of the board
Prospects by projected round · tap a bar to filter
Where the class is deep
- Top 32 on the board
- Ranked 33 and lower
Same player, two boards
Where the experts split
The biggest gaps between WalterFootball and NFL Draft Buzz. A wide gap means scouts disagree, so his draft spot is harder to call.
Full big board
If the season ended today, this is the first round. Picks follow the current standings, with traded picks moved to their new owners. The model pick is PlainStats's best guess at who fits: the best player left on the board, nudged toward each team's biggest needs.
Picks in the projected first round
Who holds the picks
Traded first-round picks
Picks on the move
Projected 2027 first round
Draft order and model mock
Needs come from each team's 2026 roster on PlainStats: how its starters rate on the field, and how many of their contracts end after this season. Ties in the standings are broken by point differential here; the league uses strength of schedule.
Draft picks are the cheapest good players in football. The rookie pay scale sets every contract by draft slot, so a team knows almost exactly what each pick will cost before it is made.
Four-year value by first-round pick
The rookie pay scale
Yearly pay, rookie vs. a top-10 veteran
What a pick saves
The grey bar is the average yearly pay of the 10 highest-paid veterans at the position. The blue bar is that pick's rookie deal per year. A rookie quarterback who plays like a top-10 starter saves his team the most.
Plain English
How rookie deals work
Cap 101
The words on every contract page
Short answers to the terms you see in contract news. Start with cap hit and dead money; most of the rest builds on those two.
About
About PlainStats
PlainStats explains NFL contracts and the salary cap for everyday fans. Every deal shows what is really guaranteed, what the player counts against the cap each year, and what happens if his team cuts or trades him. Team pages, player ratings, the draft board and the front-office tools all build on the same numbers.
Contract figures come from Over The Cap, Spotrac and press reports. Player stats come from nflverse. Ratings, grades, estimates and award odds are PlainStats' own models built from public data. They are estimates, not official figures, and they update as new stats and reports arrive.
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