You hate to refer to anything financial as a “win-win” in a sport like football, when the team owners are really and truly the ones winning every time. But, the recent extensions signed by both Carson Wentz and, late on Tuesday night, Jared Goff, illustrated a smart micro-trend established by their shared agents.
Neither is technically re-setting the market in the archaic terms we view quarterback contracts (by average salary per year, atop which sits Russell Wilson at $35 million), but both set and subsequently leapfrogged the NFL record in practical guarantees ($107,970,00 for Wentz, $110 million for Goff) and attained some long-term security fairly early in their careers while facing somewhat nebulous situations.