Deshaun Watson is not a top 10 QB

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Originally Posted by DRM08

Not when their contracts are essentially the same thing for the same time period. Both being paid around $39M per year in the 4-year period of Deshaun's deal.

That's the nature of NFL contracts though. NFL contracts have never been about paying players based on their positional rank, ESPECIALLY with QB's.

It's always been "Next man up, next biggest contract", particularly with QB's.

There's going to be plenty of QB's making more than Mahomes as time goes on. Lets not forget that Mahomes was ridiculed for his "team friendly deal", mostly because of the contract length allegedly not allowing him to renegotiate a better deal a few years from now.

The complaint from national media pundits has been, "Oh so-and-so will make more money therefore Mahomes was stupid to make that deal".