Matthew Stafford is a good, productive quarterback who has never won a playoff game. The Detroit Lions, because or in spite of this, locked up their signal caller through 2022 with a five-year contract extension reportedly worth $135 million with $92 million guaranteed Monday night.
Next year, this will be good news for Kirk Cousins as Stafford’s deal, which makes him the highest-paid player in NFL history, resets the market for quarterback pay by surpassing the $25 million average annual value in Raiders quarterback Derek Carr’s deal from earlier this summer.
Right now, it just makes the Redskins’ offer to Cousins this spring look silly.