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Originally Posted by DRM08
Lamar Jackson is being paid the same amount of cash as Mahomes over this time period, yet Lamar has legit weapons and a legit defense as well. Lamar numbers:
2023 to 2025 features $155M of cash, but only $97M cap hit. So $52M per year of cash and only $32M per year cap hit. His cap hits are supposed to jump above $74M in 2026 & 2027, but we will see what happens. Baltimore will probably have some tricks up their sleeve to dodge those higher cap hits.
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Mahomes did this. What other proof do you need? He came to the table and he wanted more money both in guaranteed and average per year.
The Chiefs were fine with the team friendly contract when it was signed back in 2020 but Mahomes got greedy. He wanted his yearly cap hit average to be at the top again so blame him.
And it's gonna be really ****ing hard to win the next 2 years after this with him making so much and picking late in the draft.
Him and his agent have already said they will revisit the contract in 2026 to do the next installment, so the $57 million and $60 million cap hits the next 2 years are pretty much finalized.
Hopefully he figures out, if he hasn't already this year, how making so much hurts his legacy and goes with another team friendly deal when they redo it again in 3 years.