The quarterback market has been completely ruined between the 2022 NFL off-season and the 2023 off-season. It all started with Deshaun Watson getting 230 million dollars all guaranteed from the Cleveland Browns. If this deal had been signed three years ago before not playing for two years between injury, holding out, and sexual assault allegations the deal would make sense because Watson was playing like a top five quarterback in the league. However, he was signed after not playing for two years and his suspension was not yet known to any teams. It was eventually eight games but it very easily could have been an entire season and the team would have had to pay him to sit on the bench the whole season. Then, in 2023 Daniel Jones and Geno Smith both had their best seasons yet. They weren’t Hall of Fame numbers but they were top half of the league numbers. They both were getting new deals this off-season no matter what. However, with an already tanking quarterback market they got huge deals. Geno Smith got a three year 75 million dollar deal after being a back-up most of his career that started in 2012. One good season and he is now making 25 million dollars a year for the next three years. Daniel Jones who was drafted early then everybody said he was going to be drafted. He had mediocre first couple years in the league and was up for contract after this season. He played well and ended up leading a mediocre Giants team to a playoff win on Wildcard weekend. This looks like he deserves a huge contract until you realize Daniel Jones only threw fifteen touchdown passes this season. With those numbers the Giants decided Jones was worth 160 million dollars over the next four years. With all this taken into account the next five to ten years will be the best years to be a quarterback with an expiring contract because teams are just handing out millions of dollars to mediocre quarterbacks all throughout the league. This will most likely cause more good teams because teams will have less money to be able to afford more star players like wide receivers, running backs, linebackers, safeties, cornerbacks, etc. The best thing coming out of this is the difference between the bad teams and the good teams will be lessened making the NFL much more competitive.