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Derek Carr’s Contract Didn’t Take Advantage of Deshaun Watson’s New Precedent

It’s draft week, when roughly 250 new NFL players will become cheap and fixed labor for NFL teams for at least three years, with team leverage even after that point, all illustrated in notes below. Draft coverage is not my lane at all, and I try to stay out of it, but for those interested I have written my war room stories and perspectives—including the fateful drafting of Aaron Rodgers—in this space before.

Before the draft, however, there are a few other interesting business of football stories that caught my eye.

Philip G.