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Super Bowl winner Eli Manning ($10 million) bests brother Peyton ($8.2 million), but Cincinnati's Carson Palmer tops the list with the league's second-highest salary at $13.5 million. Four of the league's seven players with salaries above $10 million are quarterbacks, but Tom Brady doesn't even crack the top 10 here.

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