Mahomes contract was for $450 mill...might as well have been $500 mill. It was over 10 years of course...but the we're there already dude.
It won’t be $500m for 10 years, it will be for 4 or 5.
That would be a very large jump. We're talking about an 80+% increase in yearly salary over the top number now. Burrows contract is essentially Mahomes contract, just cut in half in dollars and years. Lawrences new deal is the "same" too, but its really not. The last two years of his deal are not guaranteed...and he won't be seeing that money, either because he's played so well he'll want a new deal, or because he's played like he had thus far and the team is going to move on. Devil is in the details.
It won’t be $500m for 10 years, it will be for 4 or 5.
That would be a very large jump. We're talking about an 80+% increase in yearly salary over the top number now. Burrows contract is essentially Mahomes contract, just cut in half in dollars and years. Lawrences new deal is the "same" too, but it’s really not. The last two years of his deal are not guaranteed...and he won't be seeing that money, either because he's played so well he'll want a new deal, or because he's played like he had thus far and the team is going to move on. Devil is in the details.
I recalculated it to $345 million for 5 years. That assumes we continue to grow $30M annual salary cap increase and continue with QB getting 20% of the cap. That’s conservative estimate, as both percentages are more likely to trend upward, unless NFL admits QB salaries are out of control.
"“There has certainly been discussion within the league among certain owners about even the idea of a quarterback cap, that at some point you don’t want quarterback numbers to go over a certain percentage of your salary cap,” Pelissero said Tuesday, via BleacherReport.com. “To my knowledge, that hasn’t really gained traction, in part because so many teams have paid their quarterbacks..."
"As we’ve heard it, it wouldn’t be an official, separate cap. It would be an unofficial, off-the-books (and, more importantly, off the CBA) arrangement pursuant to which teams would refuse to go above a certain level. All teams. Which would make it pointless for, say, Dak Prescott to force his way to the open market. The best deal he’d get from the Cowboys would be the same as the best deal he’d get from someone else. (It would be like a max contract in the NBA.)...."
"The only way to properly arrange for a league-wide cap on quarterback pay would be to negotiate it with the NFL Players Association. And such efforts would quickly highlight the reality that there should be different bargaining units for each position, like running back. For that reason alone, the union would be inclined not to agree to such an approach.
For that reason alone, any conversations among owners about a quarterback cap (coupled with the proof-in-the-pudding from the deals to come) could lay the foundation for a collusion case against the NFL."
