🏈 Mahomes Underpaid Despite $500 Million Deal

Due to escalating QB salaries, Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes deserves more. [View in browser]( [FOX SPORTS INSIDER WITH MARTIN ROGERS] In today’s FOX Sports Insider with Martin Rogers: Years after signing a contract worth half of a billion dollars, Patrick Mahomes is more underpaid than ever … Bill Belichick has seen it all, but Christian Gonzalez is unlike anyone he has ever drafted … and more! Half a billion bucks … and still underpaid. Not many people get to say that. Patrick Mahomes is one of them. Half a billion. Five hundred million dollars. Maybe if you repeat it a few times you can wrap your head around it. A lottery windfall, but only if there have been a lot of rollovers. And not enough, if fair is fair, and if dollars and cents equal value and sense, to give Kansas City's two-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback an equitable reward in line with what he provides to the Chiefs and matching his status in the sport. "No matter what he makes over his career, I'm sure one way or another, he'll be underpaid," Chiefs owner Clark Hunt told the Kansas City Star last week. Hunt is right. He is also, as of now, essentially the only person able to do something about it. From the sound of it, he's either ready to do so, or least accepting of the fact that a pay bump will be required. It isn't quite accurate to say the quarterback pay scale in the National Football League is out of all control, but it is absolutely, categorically, undeniably on fire, surging forwards way beyond the pace of inflation and convention and outstripping any attempt at future-proofing. Mahomes has been future-bitten. The rapid escalation in QB pay has turned him from a trailblazing ceiling-buster in early July of 2020 into a guy locked into a deal — until the Chiefs do him a solid to keep him happy — that will now remunerate him at a level way below an accurate representation of his ability. When Mahomes signed his contract, it was for a whopping number, but remained team-friendly. He got the headline figure of $503 million but it was really a 10-year extension worth $450 million, and an overall 12-year commitment at $477 million, with another chunk available as unspecified incentives. For the rest of the story, [click here.]( [STORY IMAGE 1] [IN OTHER WORDS] - New England Patriots rookie Christian Gonzalez is unlike any cornerback Bill Belichick has drafted — [in good ways and bad]( Henry McKenna writes. - The Colts landed their quarterback of the future in Anthony Richardson, but as Ben Arthur notes, [questions remain]( at other positions. - Chris Sale looked cooked earlier this season. But a standout performance against the Phillies Friday night should give Red Sox fans hope the pitcher is [rediscovering his form]( writes Jake Mintz. - Denny Hamlin won in Kansas, but the post-race chatter centered around the scuffle between Ross Chastain and Noah Gragson. 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