Doesn't matter Brian. It's the current cost of doing business.
On a serious note, when you look at the top ten QB salaries, you could pose that question to the majority of them.
- 1. Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes: $45 million
- 2. Texans QB Deshaun Watson: $39 million
- 2. Seahawks QB Russell Wilson: $35 million
- 3. Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger: $34 million
- 4.Packers QB Aaron Rodgers: $33.5 million
- 4. Rams QB Jared Goff: $33.5 million
- 6. Vikings QB Kirk Cousins: $33 million
- 7. Eagles QB Carson Wentz: $32 million
- 8. Cowboys QB Dak Prescott: $$30.1 million
- 9. Falcons QB Matt Ryan: $30 million
- 10. Titans QB Ryan Tannehill: $29.5 million
Interesting to look at these deals in their most effective sense as number of years remaining while locked into the player cap-wise at the avg annual cap number of dollars per those 'locked' years (I used less than $10M in dead cap money as the cutoff simply because there had to be a cutoff and it's reasonable given these contracts)..
So basically, what they cost per year while we're stuck with 'em..
Patrick Mahomes - 4 yrs/$26.013M per
Deshaun Watson - 4 yrs/$27.137M per
Russell Wilson - 4 yrs/$34.75M per
Ben Roethlisberger - 2 yrs/$32.5M per
Aaron Rodgers - 3 yrs/$32.615M per
Jared Goff - 3 yrs/$31.922M per
Kirk Cousins - 3 yrs/$32.333M per
Carson Wentz - 4 yrs/$30.219M per
Dak Prescott - 1 yr/$31.409M
Matt Ryan - 3 yrs/$33.845M per
Ryan Tannehill - 3 yrs/$28.667 per
others of note..
Matt Stafford - 2yrs/$27.15M per
Philip Rivers - 1 yr/$25M
Drew Brees - 2 yrs/$29.9M per (includes $11.5M in dead cap money upon end of contract toward future years)
Teddy Bridgewater - 2yrs/$18.5M per
Derek Carr - 1 yr/$21.5M (doable for up to two more seasons at annual avg of $21.167M)
Tom Brady - 2 yrs/$25M per
So.. who do you want (besides Mahomes)..?