As written here at the start of the month, the biggest story of the 2023 offseason was bound to be the contract structures of new deals for top quarterbacks such as Jalen Hurts, Joe Burrow and Justin Herbert (and Lamar Jackson, though it doesn’t appear he’ll get a new deal). Now a year removed from Deshaun Watson’s contract, we have yet to see what I thought would be a disruption in the industry. If that disruption was going to happen, it would be from these young faces of their franchises with high leverage. The first shoe has dropped; the Eagles secured Hurts’s signature for five extension years (thus six more seasons).
I have often said Eagles general manager Howie Roseman, who ascended to the role from a negotiating—not a scouting—background, gives the Eagles a competitive advantage. And he did so again here: He pounced on the realities of the situation and created value for the team. Roseman jumped in before the Bengals and Chargers could and set the floor to spring from.
