Imagine this. The year is 2020. And the Dallas Cowboys‘ starting quarterback is theoretically a free-agent and then all of sudden, the news breaks. Tony Romo has just signed a new deal for $17 million annually to remain where he was last season.
Okay, not as dramatic as it was set up to be. But it’s irony at it’s finest. At a time when the Cowboys are playing coy with an apparently under-drafted guy who has overachieved throughout his first four years in the league, their former signal-caller is signing million-dollar deals in the upper teens annually.