The best player in the NFL who does not play quarterback is now being paid like a quarterback. In fact, he is being paid like a very good one. And he is being paid by a team that just paid its own quarterback a $60 million signing bonus.
In an offseason during which a new financial standard was set at positions such as quarterback ($46 million a year for Deshaun Watson) and wide receiver ($25 million a year for Tyreek Hill and A.J. Brown), there is now another new standard, a $33 million a year mark that we can call the Aaron Donald standard. Let’s examine this and the common question I receive all the time: How can the Rams keep doing this?
It’s about the money
