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Originally Posted by DRM08
With the way QB salaries keep going through the roof in the last couple years, there is nothing to stop this scenario if a young/prime QB wants to help his team win.
Let's say a few years down the road, he is worth $40m per year. He could agree to $22m per year and give the team $18m to play with on the defensive side of the ball. $22m salary ain't chump change! That's still a shitload of money, lol
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I figure the best way to keep Mahomes happy is to peg his salary to the cap; structure his contract so that he gets a set percentage of the cap every year. That way, you are literally building the team around him.
I calculated it once, and if he was getting the same average percentage of the cap as some of the top tier QBs, he would be getting somewhere around 16-17% of the yearly cap. Over the course of a 15 year career, based on average percentage increases of the cap year over year, he could wind up making like $750M--and we would consider it a steal.
If he really wants to bet big on himself, he could take a somewhat lower salary so that the Chiefs could pay for more weapons. If he starts piling on the rings, he could more than offset that lower salary with endorsement deals.