The football world may be at a relative standstill, but teams are operating at a record pace when it comes to avoiding the looming financial commitments they’ll have to make to at least one of their star players. Only three first-round rookie contracts have been signed as of this piece’s publication (Carolina’s Derrick Brown, and Miami’s Tua Tagovailoa and Austin Jackson). Meanwhile a boatload of significant contracts lay unaddressed, or, at the least, in a major holding pattern until the country opens its doors back up.
Here are 10 looming deals of consequence we are particularly interested in, both for the financial ramifications and for what the deals might mean for the league beyond 2020.