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Odell Beckham: NFL Players Should Get Paid More Due To Health Risk

May 19, 2015 2:00 PM

Odell Beckham Jr. believes NFL players are underpaid due to the level of risk they take on.

“I think that we should make more money, personally,” Beckham told The Huffington Post when asked what he’d change about the NFL.

“I understand that basketball plays 80-something games, baseball plays this many games, soccer plays that many games, but this is a sport where there’s more injuries. There’s more collisions. It’s not even a full-contact sport, I would call it a full-collision sport. You have people running who can run 20 miles per hour and they’re running downhill to hit you, and you’re running 18 miles per hour. That’s a car wreck. It’s just the career is shorter. There’s injuries that you have after you leave the game, brain injuries, whatever it is, nerve injuries.”

NFL players make less money on average than their counterparts in other sports due to the size of rosters.

The players’ percentage of the league’s revenue is similar in all three sports, but in the NFL that money is divided among a much larger pool of players.

Michael David Smith/Pro Football Talk

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NFL Draft Ratings Down To 5.1 From 6.8 In 2014

May 1, 2015 11:15 AM

ESPN's rating for night one of the NFL Draft were down from 2014.

The overnight rating was 5.1, down from last year's record of 6.8.

The 2014 NFL Draft had the intrigue of when Johnny Manziel would be selected.

Heading into the draft, the most compelling story was whether a team would trade up for Marcus Mariota, which was resolved in the first half hour.

Mark Maske/Washington Post

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