The Buffalo Bills have consistently rebuilt their defensive line every offseason for the past several years as they’ve received ineffective play. Among general manager Brandon Beane’s biggest contract misses, several of his largest have come at defensive tackle including the second-most overpaid player on the Bills in 2021—Vernon Butler.
In the past when we’ve done our listing, we used cap hit to reflect value, but with the cap shenanigans employed by general manager Brandon Beane recently and the improvement of the databases, we’ve switched to yearly cash payments as our metric.
Butler made more than $4.