10 players who will be wildly overpaid in 2023 NFL Free Agency

7. Allen Lazard, WR, Green Bay Packers

Allen Lazard was undrafted in the class of 2018 out of Iowa State, and quite frankly, that was a mistake by most NFL teams. Lazard was a good player in college, and has proven to be a very solid player at the NFL level.

With his big 6-foot-5 frame, Lazard is a good fit for the modern NFL “big slot” role and can also provide value as an outside receiver, red zone threat, and occasional big-play threat downfield. What he lacks in speed, he makes up for with his length, catch radius, and blocking abilities.

Over the past four years, Lazard’s 17-game averages include:

• 51 receptions
• 677 yards
• 6 TDs
• 13.3 yards per reception

With a market value of almost $13 million per season, some team is shaping up to pay Lazard much more than he’s probably worth at the present moment. The Packers have really maximized his value, landing him as an undrafted free agent and watching him blossom before their very eyes over the last four seasons.

This past year, Lazard was supposed to take on a vastly increased role with the departure of Davante Adams in a blockbuster deal with the Raiders, but that didn’t happen. He received 100 targets but his efficiency dwindled with a career-low catch rate of 60 percent. His drop percentage went from less than two percent in 2021 to six percent in 2022.

Lazard does plenty of things well and he’s a good player, but for a contract worth nearly $35-40 million over the next three years? That’s an investment only a team with more cap space than they know what to do with should make. Luckily for Lazard, a couple of former Packers assistants in New York and Chicago (Nathaniel Hackett, Luke Getsy) could use his services.