Ben Roethlisberger’s Contract Lays Groundwork for Eli Manning’s Financial Future

March 20, 2015   ·   Sean Tomlinson   ·   Jump to comments

Precedents make money move in the NFL. The machinery of contract negotiations will always spit out a comparison between similarly aged or skilled players, and that computing process could become quite profitable soon for New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning.
Manning is heading into the final year of his current contract. Few quarterbacks who have franchise arms attached to their bodies actual get to begin a season under that cloud, so an extension is expected sometime this offseason.
How soon?
“Nothing to report yet,” Giants co-owner John Mara said during a Thursday press conference (via Nick Powell of NJ Advance Media), needing four words to summarize the state of talks. Mara added that the Giants would like to give Manning a new contract at some point.
Often contract negotiations need a baseline. They need a starting point and model. They need a precedent set.
Or in Manning’s case, he needed Ben Roethlisberger to establish the curren...

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