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“Underpaid” Mahomes is now number one in salary too
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Kansas-Quarterback Patrick Mahomes
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Patrick Mahomes is the best quarterback in the NFL for most experts. His old ten-year contract set standards, but other professionals still earned more. The Chiefs responded to that. Nobody can come close to Mahomes’ salary so quickly.
The Kansas City Chiefs have given quarterback Patrick Mahomes a particularly big birthday present and will pay him even better in the future than they already do. As US media report, citing anonymous sources, the Super Bowl champion is now guaranteed $210.6 million (225 million euros) over the next four years following a restructuring of his contract.
No one has ever earned more for such a period in the National Football League. Since 2020, when he signed a ten-year contract worth $450 million (€481 million), Mahomes has already been the NFL professional with the largest contract in the league’s history. He turned 28 on Sunday.
Mahomes is “undernumbered,” says his boss
Since his signing a little more than three years ago, numerous other quarterbacks have received contracts that guaranteed them more money on average per year than Mahomes would have earned with the Chiefs. Joe Burrow has recently been receiving an average of $55 million (around €59 million) every year from the Cincinnati Bengals. Justin Herbert (Los Angeles Chargers), Deshaun Watson (Cleveland Browns) and Lamar Jackson (Baltimore Jackson) were also better paid than Mahomes on average for the year.
After his second Super Bowl victory in February, when he led the Chiefs to victory against the Philadelphia Eagles despite an ankle injury, the Chiefs wanted to move Mahomes further up the league’s money list. Chiefs boss Clark Hunt recently said that no matter how much money Mahomes earns in his career, “he will be underpaid.” Mahomes is currently playing his seventh NFL season. His contract with the Chiefs runs until 2031.
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