As it turns out, teams who have young quarterbacks of some accomplishment who are due to get paid decline to look at their own players as cautionary tales, even though perhaps more quarterbacks fail than succeed after receiving their big payday. Jared Goff and Carson Wentz, for example, were both traded this offseason. They were drafted first and second overall and then got paid, and are now gone within two years.
The AFC North has two first-round picks from 2018 due to get paid in the Baltimore Ravens’ Lamar Jackson and the Cleveland Browns’ Baker Mayfield. At every opportunity, they keep getting asked about Goff and Wentz and whether that concerns them, and they keep saying no.