Those are previous deals.
If ur a Top 7 WR which CD is, and you sign a NEW deal, you will be the highest paid WR in the league. Then the next Top 7 WR that signs the NEXT deal, will be the highest paid...and so on, and so on. It's just the way it works, and why salaries are ever increasing.
If Hill is making 30 a year, CD's agent will insist on 35 a year, and they'll settle in the middlebat 32 or 33 a year.
A good GM could work around this....but our geriatric self urinating "GM" will let CD, Micah and Dak's contracts lock the team in cement, and we will have 3 highly paid players and 45 scrubs. His abacus accounting system won't allow for creativity