nfl and signing your franchise QB is quite a conondrum. Take these two stats in mind:
4 Championship QBs that played yesterday, only one was among the 28 highest paid QBs in the NFL (Mahomes is 9th)..
The 4 higheste nfl QBs are "Rodgers, Wilson, Kyler Murray and Watson." All 4 rosters are a disaster.
so it means that signing your QB to a huge deal could and very well often kills your team and ability to compete.. But the chiefs wouldnt win squat without Mahomes and they'd be fools to let him go. Burrows will be the highest paid player in a year or two, will that help the bengals or hurt them?
The one thing i think i know is if you have a Franchise talent QB under his rookie contract, you have a short window so you better give him every thing he needs while he is making peanuts (like the bengals with higgins, boyd and chase). Because once that qb gets his second contract, you cant afford it (chiefs with Tyreke hill)..
If ravens sign lamar, when the bengals sign burrow, steelers will have a 1-2 year gap where Kenny is under his rookie contract while all 3 afc north teams are straddled paying their qbs with 9 digit contracts.