How to play this off-season with free agency?

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Originally Posted by DRM08

Yep. Mahomes will be in his prime 5-6 years down the road. Higher salary makes sense at that point. Will Jones still be in his prime 4-5 years from now? Setting that aside, Jones has made $6.2M and Mahomes has made $13.7M. Would think the lower paid guy needs more frontloading on the new contract.

There isn't any room to front load either contract right now. Front and back loading is also purely related to the cap, and nothing to do with when the guy gets the cash a lot of the time.