Welcome to the seventh installation of Thursday Thoughts, a series of looks at key topics across the NFL landscape. We’ve covered plenty of quarterbacks throughout this summer, and today we’re looking at another intriguing group: the young, still-cheap ones.
I don’t think I’m delivering any scorching hot take when I say starting quarterback is the most important position in sports. If you have one, you have a chance. If you don’t, you don’t.
But there’s a caveat. When you find a quarterback and he’s on a rookie deal, the possibilities are near endless. It allows you to build around him in financial ways you simply can’t when he’s making top-of-market money.
A quarter of the league’s projected Week 1 starters are still on their extremely cheap rookie deals and haven’t signed an extension. We’ve addressed two in this series already: Caleb Williams as a quarterback on team with huge expectations and Anthony Richardson as one of the quarterbacks returning from major injuries. But what about the others? What can they — and their teams — do in 2024 to take advantage of their cheapest years? We’ll start with one whose team used this offseason to take advantage of his historically great rookie year.
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Author : Zachary Pereles
Publish date : 2024-08-22 12:25:47
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