Super Bowl XLI – Did Top Players Earn Their Pay This Year?

A New Way of Looking at NFL Statistics

It may be right before a presentation, standing by the water cooler, or while viewing a very expensive Super Bowl commercial, but there is bound to be talk about all those enormous salaries that equally oversized NFL players are earning, and whether they are providing adequate bang-for-the-buck.

Without considering how much these players get paid, how can we really determine who is truly the most "valuable" player in the Super Bowl? Now with WebFOCUS Active Reports from Information Builders, players' performance and salary data is right at your fingertips. Check out these receiving, defense, rushing, and passing reports to find out if your favorite football player is an MVP or not.

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Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Marvin Harrison made $8 million and gained 1,366 yards during the regular season. Is he really worth over 10 percent of the team's salary? With a salary of $1.7 million teammate Reggie Wayne provided 1,310 yards for a much more modest 4.14 percent of payroll.

Chicago linebacker Brain Urlacher leads the team with 142 tackles. His $4.3 million salary equates to $30,281 per takedown. With a salary of $384,840, lesser known Indianapolis linebacker Cato June gave his Colts the same number of sacks.

Want to find out which Bears player is the highest paid on the team, and whose salary is also over 10 percent of the team's payroll with earnings of more than $1.8 million per touchdown this year? Or find the unlikely Colts player who scored a TD in the regular and post season for less than 1 percent of the total team salary.

The Super Bowl XLI Active Report is built using Information Builders' WebFOCUS Active Reports technology, which allows you to dynamically re-sort data, turn it into charts, apply filters, and more – without a live network connection!

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*These stats reflect regular season play.