Having a star running back like Jonathan Taylor on a rookie contract is something special the Indianapolis Colts will cherish as long as they can.
As teams try to shy away from paying running backs big money on their second contracts, it’s the players like Taylor who wind up bringing the most value to the offense when it comes to production cost.
Because he’s still on his rookie deal with a salary-cap hit of just $2.13 million in 2022, Taylor was featured as the starting running back on the “best NFL team money can buy,” an experiment done by NFL.com to fill the best roster possible under the league’s $208.2 million salary cap.
