Keefer’s recent article in the Journal of Sports Economics, “Compensation discrimination for defensive players …: applying quantile regression to the National Football League market for linebackers,†finds wage discrimination in the … also for offensive linemen and limit our study to rookie players. We would expect to find stronger evidence of …

Using data from 2001 to 2009, quantile regression techniques are used to analyze the presence of discrimination in the … gap across the distribution. This article concludes that discrimination is present in the linebacker market. This result …