Saints safety Roman Harper involved in most hits forcing an opponent to leave the field

In the wake of the NFL bounty scandal, the Wall Street Journal analysed every regular and postseason Saints game since 2009. Their findings? 33% of games -- 18 times in 54 games -- an opponent was carted off the field. Roman Harper was involved in 4 of them. The WSJ's Matthew Futterman belittled the bounty because the bucks that theoretically would have been bestowed on players wasn't that big a deal:

According to the NFL, the Saints rewarded players $1,000 for knocking opponents out of the game and $1,500 if the player had to be taken off in a cart. Exactly who received what on the Saints roster isn't clear, including whether Harper received any money at all. But under that formula, the total payout during those three seasons would have been about $19,000. And of that, based on the review of those seasons, Harper could have pocketed a grand total of about $4,500—peanuts for a player earning more than $7 million a year.

Brilliant.

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