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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
Yeah, its going to be an issue in 3 more years. It may be up to $60 million a year by then. Whatever the $, we will pay it and wont have as much money to pay other players. Hopefully, we can fix the defense and win a Super Bowl before he starts eating up more of the cap.
I love this first world problem.
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The good news is that Rodgers is already extended and I don't see anyone else re-setting the scale.
Luck is signed through 2021. Newton is due in 2020 but is he really going to get money that alters the QB landscape? Brady is perennial outlier, Ben is old, Brees is old.
So you look at Goff and Wentz as guys that will change the QB market - I don't see them pushing the scale that far, that fast. Rodgers just re-set the market with effectively 4 years/$125 million added to his deal (with another year or two that may not mean anything; they're palatable cap cuts).
So Rodgers is sitting at $31.25 in AAV and he's Aaron !@#$ing Rodgers. Even if he plays out his whole deal with the inflated figures at the back he's at $33.5 million in AAV.
I just can't see the scale getting rocket too far past that by the time Mahomes is due because some agent would have to walk into an NFL GM's office and credibly argue "my guy deserves to get paid more than Aaron Rodgers does" and that's a tough argument to make.
The cap will go up so the # will as well, but I'd say probably in the $40 million range and still around 15% of the total team cap.