These days, big contract extensions have been handed out to quite a few star quarterbacks within the NFL.
Deshaun Watson, Joe Burrow, Trevor Lawrence and now Tua Tagovailoa and Jordan Love have all secured big luggage which have enormously raised the ceiling on the quarterback market.
In the meantime, the 10-year, $450 million deal Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs agreed to a couple years in the past is beginning to look only a bit too small.
Whereas Mahomes has stated he’s good along with his present contract scenario, Chris Broussard stated on Fox Sports activities 1’s “First Things First” that Mahomes ought to be the highest-paid participant in all of American sports activities.
“Patrick Mahomes should be the highest-paid athlete in sports — in the NFL, NBA & MLB.” 👀
Agree with @Chris_Broussard? pic.twitter.com/WFGQy7KKrH
— First Issues First (@FTFonFS1) July 29, 2024
Broussard additionally added that Mahomes “has his head screwed on right” as a result of Mahomes isn’t anxious about just a few further million {dollars}.
The 2-time league MVP has received three Tremendous Bowl championships, and on the age of 28, extra could possibly be on the best way for him.
Maybe the most important factor Mahomes has going for him proper now, apart from his pure expertise and skill to make one thing out of nothing in third and fourth-down conditions, is the aura of inevitability he has created for himself.
It’s one which maybe solely Tom Brady and Joe Montana had earlier than him, and in different sports activities, maybe solely Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant had such an aura.
Regardless of shifting personnel round him on offense, significantly at huge receiver, Mahomes continues to win, and as a starter, he has by no means failed to succeed in the AFC Championship Sport.
The most important factor that brings within the Benjamins in sports activities is profitable, and proper now, nobody in sports activities is an even bigger and extra constant winner than Mahomes.
