NFL salaries report: Ends earn top-tier money

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usatoday.com - 11/30/2007

NFL salaries report: Ends earn top-tier money

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Three of the five highest-paid players this season and six of the top 20 are defensive ends, with Dwight Freeney of the Indianapolis Colts topping the list at $30.75 million. Only two of the top 20 are quarterbacks. "The quarterback," Freeney says, "has always been getting the hype. So you have to have someone to counteract that. If the great quarterback has no time to throw, then he's no ...

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