As Lamar Jackson’s contract saga rolls on, the NFL industry continues to discuss how it is possible that a 26 year-old former MVP remains available, after the Ravens placed the non-exclusive franchise tag on him. The quarterback’s reported desire to land a close-to fully guaranteed deal appears to be a turn off to the majority of teams.
While some people may think Jackson’s asking price is too high, Richard Sherman chose to defend Jackson. Instead, Sherman believes a few quarterbacks who failed to capitalize on Kirk Cousins’s fully guaranteed contract are more at fault.
“When Kirk Cousins got his guaranteed deal, I thought quarterbacks from then on were gonna be like ‘if it ain’t guaranteed, I ain’t taking it,” he said. “Then [Patrick] Mahomes took that BS deal, 10 years and wanted it to like like half a [billion]...when he didn’t set it, then Josh Allen didn’t set it.”
