Agent's Take: Exploring what a cap on exploding QB salaries could look like, steps necessary for it to happen
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Some NFL owners have reportedly discussed the matter recently
Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford was the NFL's highest-paid player at $27 million per year when the 2017 regular season began. He had just signed a five-year, $135 million contract extension.
Quarterback salaries skyrocketed over the next few years. By the start of the 2023 regular season, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow was the league's highest-paid player with his five-year, $275 million extension averaging $55 million per year.
The top of the quarterback market more than doubled during those six years. By contrast, the salary cap increased by 34.61% from $167 million in 2017 to $224.8 million in 2023. Even if there hadn't been a sharp decrease in the salary cap in 2021 because of the COVID pandemic, the growth in quarterback salaries would still easily dwarf the growth in salary cap over that span.
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