07-24-2023, 10:43 PM
(07-24-2023, 01:53 PM)Hammerstripes Wrote: I think it is. The cap went up roughly $20 million last year. That's basically adding another huge contract to the cap.
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As long as we don't have another pandemic, we should see the cap continue to rise by roughly 20 per year.
Except salaries aren't stagnant, they rise along with the cap so you're not just getting magically more cap space with the same costs. If us on a message board know the cap is going to rise roughly $20m/yr, multi-millionaire agents who professionally negotiate cumulative billions of dollars worth of contracts also know it and they're going to negotiate accordingly.
Top 5 QBs averaged 2021: $40.4m/yr
Top 5 QBs averaged 2022: $47.2m/yr
Top 5 WRs averaged 2021: $20.9m/yr
Top 5 WRs averaged 2022: $27.4m/yr
In 2023 QBs have seen a $51m/yr deal and a $52m/yr deal, with Burrow and Herbert still to go and the Chiefs already talking about having to give Mahomes more money too. Justin Jefferson is still going to reset the top of the WR market this offseason as well.
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