It's good to be a quarterback in the NFL these days. The contracts for starters have ballooned to historic degrees over the last few years and each passing deal seems to dwarf the next. The most recent example of this comes in Philadelphia where the Eagles signed Jalen Hurts to a mega extension that has an average annual value of $51 million per season, which is the highest among all players let alone quarterbacks. 

These types of deals have an impact across the entire NFL, especially those who may now be playing on an inferior deal because of all this drastic movement, which is a growing case in Kansas City with Patrick Mahomes. The two-time Super Bowl champion signed a monster 10-year, $503 million contract extension with the Chiefs back in 2020. While that long-term commitment links Mahomes to the organization for the bulk of his career and is the largest contract in American professional sports history, he is now the sixth-highest-paid quarterback from an AAV standpoint. Mahomes could fall even further down the list once Joe Burrow in Cincinnati and Justin Herbert in L.A. ink their looming extensions.