Sad News: For The Eagles’ As $75 Million WR Called ‘Most Overpaid Player’ Has Just Been Announced Dead……
In April 2024, the Philadelphia Eagles made an unusual decision when it came to their electric wide receiver duo of A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith.
That decision? Despite a clear delineation in talent, the Eagles were going to pay both players like they were WR1 instead of a WR1 and WR2.
Smith was first, with a 3-year, $75 million contract extension that pays him $25 million per year. A few weeks later, it was Brown’s turn with a 3-year, $96 million contract extension that pays him $32 million per year. At the time, it put both players in the Top 10 of the NFL’s highest paid wide receivers.
That the Eagles proceeded to reel off a 14-3 regular season record and dominated the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX — a game in which both Smith and Brown caught touchdown passes — those contracts have avoided any scrutiny to this point.
That is, until Bleacher Report’s Brad Gagnon recently called Smith out for being the “Most Overpaid Player” on the Eagles’ roster in 2025.
“Smith is a very good player, but he’s a clear-cut No. 2 receiver who has averaged about 1,000 yards per season and never scored more than eight touchdowns in a campaign.” Gagnon wrote. “Yet his $25 million AAV makes him the 12th-highest-paid player at his position.”
In April 2024, the Philadelphia Eagles made an unusual decision when it came to their electric wide receiver duo of A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith.
That decision? Despite a clear delineation in talent, the Eagles were going to pay both players like they were WR1 instead of a WR1 and WR2.
Smith was first, with a 3-year, $75 million contract extension that pays him $25 million per year. A few weeks later, it was Brown’s turn with a 3-year, $96 million contract extension that pays him $32 million per year. At the time, it put both players in the Top 10 of the NFL’s highest paid wide receivers.
That the Eagles proceeded to reel off a 14-3 regular season record and dominated the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX — a game in which both Smith and Brown caught touchdown passes — those contracts have avoided any scrutiny to this point.
That is, until Bleacher Report’s Brad Gagnon recently called Smith out for being the “Most Overpaid Player” on the Eagles’ roster in 2025.
“Smith is a very good player, but he’s a clear-cut No. 2 receiver who has averaged about 1,000 yards per season and never scored more than eight touchdowns in a campaign.” Gagnon wrote. “Yet his $25 million AAV makes him the 12th-highest-paid player at his position.”
Smith’s entry into our football-loving lives came in the most dramatic way possible, when he came up with one of the greatest catches in college football history as a true freshman at the University of Alabama — a game-winning, 41-yard touchdown reception in overtime of the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship Game against Georgia.
Nicknamed “The Slim Reaper” or “Skinny Batman” because of his 6-foot, 170-pound frame, Smith capped his college career with another CFP National Championship in 2020 as he became the first wide receiver to win the Heisman Trophy since Michigan’s Desmond Howard in 1991.
