Free Agency begins today, sort of.

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It's natural inflation. The cap goes up, the prices go up. Plus, players have a lot of leverage on the open market.

Today, Stephon Gilmore got $13M per year from the Patriots. Naturally, we can assume that if Peters continues on his current track, he will get between $16-19M per year. It's just the way it's gonna be by then.

In this particular case, the guard market was loaded and it was a bidding war to get the top dogs. Therefore now all of the top guards in the league will be looking for $12M per year or more when they are due for a pay day.