NFL - Sports Rumors - Kellen Winslow

Denver Broncos wide receiver Brandon Marshall(notes) wants a new deal. According to the Denver Post, he deserves one ... big time, the newspaper wrote.

The Post wrote: Like it or not, Marshall is underpaid. Big-time. It has become fashionable to denigrate his remarkable receiving numbers with one qualification or another, so consider this: In the 63-year history of the Cleveland Browns, one of the teams now reportedly interested in Marshall, they never have had a receiver catch 100 passes in a season.

Not Ozzie Newsome. Not Kellen Winslow(notes) Jr. Not Braylon Edwards(notes). Never.

Marshall caught 104 last season, third in the NFL, with a salary cap number of $526,824. Chump change by Not For Long standards. According to the report, 33 members of the Broncos carried bigger numbers last season.

Thanks to a deserved Pro Bowl appearance, his pay increases to just more than $2 million this year, still nowhere near the salary neighborhood of the league's top receivers. Buffalo's Lee Evans(notes) signed a four-year, $37 million extension last year, the Post reported.

Somehow, Marshall's off- field issues have become a justification to cheat him out of a fair salary on the field, according to the Post.

Source: Denver Post