Four years ago, Kirk Cousins did the unexpected: He signed a fully guaranteed, three-year, $84 million deal with the Minnesota Vikings. It was unprecedented at the time and many pondered whether or not Cousins’ deal would usher in a new age of mega quarterback contracts forever.
Through Russell Wilson’s extension on Thursday, it doesn’t appear so.
Twenty-three other multi-year quarterback deals worth at least $50 million were signed since Cousins inked his contract in 2018. And up until this past offseason, only Cousins’ 2020 extension with the Vikings was fully guaranteed.
Deshaun Watson re-opened the floodgates this past March with a five-year, $230 million deal he signed after being traded to the Cleveland Browns.