Who are the top 10 highest paid NFL quarterbacks in 2022?
Planet Sport looks at the highest wage earners at the quarterback position for the upcoming 2022 NFL season. Seven-time Super Bowl winner Tom Brady misses the cut.
As such, NFL teams are throwing money at their star quarterbacks if they're lucky enough to get one.
So we've taken a look at the highest earners in the upcoming 2022 NFL season - based on the annual average of their contracts on Overthecap.com.
Brady will earn a mere $25million this coming season and throughout his career has regularly taken smaller contracts than he could have signed in order to help build a winning team.
Here's who does make Planet Sport's top QB earners of 2022 list though...
10. Washington Commanders QB: Carson Wentz ($32 million)
9. Detroit Lions QB: Jared Goff ($33.5 million)
The Rams certainly got the better end of the Matthew Stafford trade as the Lions are left with a middling, yet very expensive QB in Jared Goff.
7. Denver Broncos QB: Russell Wilson ($35 million)
Russell Wilson was another big trade move in the offseason as he ended a decade in Seattle by joining the Denver Broncos, who took on the final two years of his $140m extension he signed with the Seahawks.
10 years of greatness in Seattle.@DangeRussWilson’s Top 10 plays with the @Seahawks. (via @nflthrowback) pic.twitter.com/uu90fAPhnS
— NFL (@NFL) March 9, 2022
He could easily argue for being higher up this list considering what he's achieved already.
7. Minnesota Vikings QB: Kirk Cousins ($35 million)
5. Los Angeles Rams QB: Matthew Stafford ($40 million)
Matthew Stafford joined the Los Angeles Rams with all kinds of pressure on his shoulders. He'd never won a playoff game but was always thought of as an elite talent on a bad Lions team.
Win a Super Bowl, get extended.
— NFL (@NFL) March 19, 2022
The @RamsNFL have their guy for the next 4 years. 💪 pic.twitter.com/0lsWdV0yh1
The Rams handed him a contract extension as a reward.
5. Dallas Cowboys QB: Dak Prescott ($40 million)
4. Buffalo Bills QB: Josh Allen ($43 million)
Josh Allen signed a six-year deal worth $258m, with $150m guaranteed with the Buffalo Bills, and showed in last year's playoffs exactly why they dished out all that cash.
Top 10 plays of the season for @BuffaloBills QB Josh Allen 🎯
— FOX Sports: NFL (@NFLonFOX) February 24, 2022
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Allen might just have the strongest arm in the league, it's a cannon, and he's definitely the most powerful quarterback runner - a giant of a man that storms through tacklers.
3. Kansas City Chiefs QB: Patrick Mahomes ($45 million)
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— NFL (@NFL) March 17, 2022
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The deal means the Chiefs locked down one of the most naturally gifted passers in the league. But it does swallow up a lot of cash - cash that perhaps could've been used to keep Tyreek Hill?
2. Cleveland Browns QB: Deshaun Watson ($46 million)
This eye-watering amount of a $230m deal being fully guaranteed is a game-changer and has NFL owners and general managers shaking their heads in disbelief!
1. Green Bay Packers QB: Aaron Rodgers ($50.3 million)
And top of the three is back-to-back league MVP Aaron Rodgers, who looked like he was leaving Green Bay in the summer of 2021 only to settle his feud with the Packers and sign a bumper new deal for 2022 and beyond.
The MVP isn't going anywhere. 😏@AaronRodgers12 | @packers pic.twitter.com/13Fnptt0NP
— NFL (@NFL) March 8, 2022