Is Joe Flacco’s Megadeal Just the Beginning of a QB Market Explosion?

March 3, 2016   ·   Gary Davenport   ·   Jump to comments

It's good to be a quarterback in today's NFL.
Semi-competent signal-callers regularly receive contracts in excess of $18 million per season. Good ones can get upward of $20 million per campaign. And the great ones? The ones with rings on their fingers? They break the proverbial bank.
Joe Flacco of the Baltimore Ravens may not be a great quarterback, but he does have a Super Bowl ring. And after inking a three-year extension Wednesday, two things are certain.
Flacco has plenty of money for razors and eyebrow wax, and his new megadeal may just be the opening salvo of the latest escalation of the arms race for arms in the NFL.
NFL Network tweeted terms of the extension, which keeps Flacco under contract through the 2021 season:
As that graphic indicates, the 2015 season was a massive disappointment, both for Flacco (whose season ended prematurely thanks to a torn ACL) and the Ravens. However, given Flacco's previous resume (which included a magical run to a win in...

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