Tennessee Titans cornerback Malcolm Butler made quite the turnaround toward the end of last season.
But does he truly deserve the amount of money the team is paying him?
Bleacher Report’s Kristopher Knox doesn’t think so. The analyst believes Butler’s $61.25 million contract over five years is feeding the cornerback much more cash than he’s worth.
“That is an obscene amount of money for a player with just one Pro Bowl and who was benched by his former team (the Patriots) in the biggest game of the season,” he wrote.
Cameron Pezet of Pro Footbal Focus also noted an extreme drop in Butler’s overall grade, and thinks Butler should be performing better for the Titans given how much he’s paid.
“It doesn’t appear the Titans got what they paid for,” he wrote. “After earning an overall grade of 84.1 over four years in New England, Butler finished this season with a career-low grade of 67.1.”
In 2018, Butler registered 69 tackles, one sack, three interceptions and one score for Tennessee.
On his NFL career, he totals 274 tackles, three sacks, 11 interceptions and one touchdown.
Butler is just one of a host of Titans players with a lot to prove in the upcoming season, and he’ll need to continue performing at the level he capped last year off with if he wants to have a roster spot long-term.
