Rookie QB Deal Window

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(02-01-2021, 09:01 PM)QueenCity Wrote: I'm not talking about making it free for all like MLB is you'd still have the same cap as you currently do.


The QB position just has a separate Cap so it doesn't take 60% of your caps salary.

The only advantage is drafting well still and being able to keep the players you draft?

Obviously no QB takes up 60% of a team's salary cap. The highest AAV for QB is $45 mill, which is to Mahomes. He's not even 25% of the team's cap space from what I've looked up between 2021 and 2026.

It's the team's decision what they want to pay a player. But by having the same cap that includes the QB, it forces the teams who pay big money to QBs to figure out how they can field the rest of the team with a lesser pool of remaining money. That's the challenge, and it's what helps keep parity in the league along with how the draft order is determined.

If you remove QB from the salary cap, that means every team now will have the same amount of money to field the rest of the team.
Do you think it'd be fair for the Chiefs to be able to have Mahomes at $45 mill APY but also the same amount of money for the rest of the players as a team with a rookie QB?
I don't think that's fair to the rest of the teams.