What is forgotten is that any “fully guaranteed” contract, that dollar amount that is “fully guaranteed” has to be deposited,
in cash, in an escrow account.
Cousins did use the leverage to get a “fully guaranteed” contract. And that experience has made owners very hesitant to go down that perilous path.
Kirk Cousins is a good QB, but he’s simply not on the level of the elite QB’s like Brady (he never had a multi-year several hundred million dollar “fully guaranteed” contract), Rodgers, Mahomes, Allen, Burrow and on and on.
The Vikings handcuffed themselves with their “fully guaranteed” contract for an above average but by no means “elite” QB.
The Athletic, in their annual “
QB Tier” ranking had him accurately a “Tier 3” QB ranked #15 before the 2022 season.
The Browns (out of desperation and stupidity) made a HUGE mistake in their contract with Watson. It will probably come back to bite them in the ass. (It probably has already).
No NFL team should be stupid enough to give in to Lamar Jackson’s unrealistic demands. If he had a professional agent, he/she would have set him straight some time ago.
A NFL player acting as his own agent has a fool as a client. Jackson is a fool.