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Aaron Rodgers' Record Contract Confirms the NFL's Future Is All About Offense

If quarterbacks have seemed powerful in the NFL in the past, it is nothing compared to now. Now they are the league's gods.

Johnny Unitas made $100,000 a year in the 1960s. That was considered huge money. Today, quarterbacks pay that to get their golf carts detailed.

About 45 years after Unitas played his last game, on a normal Wednesday in August, Aaron Rodgers showed just how far the power of quarterbacks has come, and how much it's still growing.

Rodgers' four-year extension, according to a source with knowledge of the deal, is worth $134 million.