Sebastian Janikowski’s Record Deal Might Have Been the Right Call

Maybe Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis is onto something in making Sebastian Janikowski the NFL's highest-paid kicker.

With Janikowski signing a record four-year, $16 million deal, it forces the football world to analyze the value of not only special teams players, but place-kickers.

Janikowski is the Raiders' all-time leader in points scored, tallying 1,000 during his 10-year career for a franchise that has been close to the bottom of offensive output since the 2002 Super Bowl season.  Just by flipping through any NFL record book, one would see that kickers—not ...

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