My last piece looking at the QB cap hits among championship contenders for the past decade drew considerable interest, and spurred some excellent back and forth in the comments section. One of the requests made by some of the commenters was to take a closer look at how the top compensated quarterbacks, as a function of their salary cap consumption percentage, actually performed over the past several years.
For the purposes of this exercise, I’ve chosen to look at how the top 5 quarterbacks in each of the last 5 NFL seasons performed. Below, I provide each of the quarterbacks, the percentage of salary cap consumed by their salary in the given year, and their team’s record and playoff results, if they got that far.