Quarterback contracts, when you have a good one, don’t follow the same patterns as those for any other position. For starters, it’s routine to get extensions done not with one year left on their contracts but two.
That’s where the Cincinnati Bengals are this offseason with Joe Burrow. At least, they will be after they exercise his fifth-year option, which is a foregone conclusion. Three years into his NFL career, he’s won two division titles and competed in two conference finals, nearly winning a Super Bowl.
That’s an awful lot of success relative to Bengals history. In fact, his five postseason wins doubled their total since their inception.