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If that data is accurate, it's pretty amazing the drop off from the top 3. This would be incredible recruiting material if it's verifiable. Even if it's directionally accurate. Someone should show Jabrill Peppers the difference between African American football players at Stanford ($1.18M) and UofM ($0.4M).
I'm not sure what the study means by "Return on Investment" which is usually calculated as a %. This looks more like an "NPV" (Net Present Value) or perhaps just gross salary over 30 years. It would be hard to calculate an ROI, since most of the players on the team are on full scholarship and therefore have close to $0 "investment" in their degrees (though I'm sure there's some out of pocket expenses.)
I remember a couple of years ago reading that Shaw shared with recruits the annual salary stats for Stanford vs. average D1 footballers or perhaps against specific schools, I can't remember which. Perhaps he will start using this.