It usually isn’t polite to count someone else’s money, but it essentially comes with the job of being a professional athlete.
Especially in sports that have a salary cap in the name of competitive fairness, how much a player is getting payed says everything about how that team values that player. After all, how much a team is spending on that player is money they could be spending on another.
The list is based on the players who will provide the biggest cap hits in 2018, which is based on a player’s salary and other various bonuses the player is scheduled to receive that season.