Examining the determining factors in each negotiation and judging the strengths and weaknesses of each contract for the players and the teams.
Jordan Love and Tua Tagovailoa, two young quarterbacks that are the futures of the Green Bay Packers and the Miami Dolphins, had their contracts extended last week. Their contracts were completed within hours of each other, by the same agents, with the same contract length.
The Packers and the Dolphins both wanted to follow recent trends of locking up their young quarterbacks for a term that—factoring in existing and extension years—totaled six or seven years . Recent contracts have seen the Cincinnati Bengals, Los Angeles Chargers and Jacksonville Jaguars secure Joe Burrow, Justin Herbert and Trevor Lawrence, respectively, for a total of seven years and the Philadelphia Eagles secure Jalen Hurts for six.
While reporting will show that Love’s $55 million a year “ties” the top annual averages of Burrow and Lawrence, Love’s deal is stronger, and he will approach free agency much sooner and much younger than those players. Both Love and Tagovailoa, assuming continued consistent play, will be negotiating another major contract extension with their teams prior to age 30. That is Prescott-sized leverage.
Rodgers and Love sat on the bench for three years before becoming the starting quarterback of the Packers. / Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal SentinelIn 2001 as the Packers vice president, I negotiated the then-largest contract in the NFL, a 10-year, $111 million contract for Brett Favre. More than 20 years later, the same team has negotiated two more NFL-record contracts, to two other quarterbacks, in ’22 and ’24 . And history repeats itself.
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