Lately, huge contract extensions have been handed out to a number of star quarterbacks in the NFL.
Deshaun Watson, Joe Burrow, Trevor Lawrence and now Tua Tagovailoa and Jordan Love have all secured huge bags that have greatly raised the ceiling on the quarterback market.
Meanwhile, the 10-year, $450 million deal Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs agreed to a few years ago is starting to look just a bit too small.
While Mahomes has said he’s good with his current contract situation, Chris Broussard said on Fox Sports 1’s “First Things First” that Mahomes should be the highest-paid player in all of American sports.
“Patrick Mahomes should be the highest-paid athlete in sports — in the NFL, NBA & MLB.” 👀
Agree with @Chris_Broussard? pic.twitter.com/WFGQy7KKrH
— First Things First (@FTFonFS1) July 29, 2024
Broussard also added that Mahomes “has his head screwed on right” because Mahomes isn’t worried about a few extra million dollars.
The two-time league MVP has won three Super Bowl championships, and at the age of 28, more could be on the way for him.
Perhaps the biggest thing Mahomes has going for him right now, other than his natural talent and ability to make something out of nothing in third and fourth-down situations, is the aura of inevitability he has created for himself.
It is one that perhaps only Tom Brady and Joe Montana had before him, and in other sports, perhaps only Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant had such an aura.
Despite shifting personnel around him on offense, particularly at wide receiver, Mahomes continues to win, and as a starter, he has never failed to reach the AFC Championship Game.
The biggest thing that brings in the Benjamins in sports is winning, and right now, no one in sports is a bigger and more consistent winner than Mahomes.
