Would you extend these quarterbacks if they were on the Rams?

It feels as though the news around NFL player contracts has gotten increasingly more attention with each passing offseason, perhaps because many are asking the last question you’d ever bring up at a limbo party: “How high can you go?”

The NFL player payment ecosystem doesn’t work like it does for most of us, in which there are different salary tiers for different people in similar roles. I may want to see my colleague’s salary and then ask—no, DEMAND—for more money than my co-workers who are in the same role regardless of whether or not I’m doing a better job than those people. But our jobs don’t really work like that, generally speaking.

This is how the NFL works, however.

The highest-paid…