How Patrick Mahomes’ monster deal impacts Giants’ stars

News of Cheif’s quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ record-breaking deal set the sports world on fire; here’s how it could affect future negotiations with NY Giants star players.

Yesterday many of us were going about our day (as normally as we can these days) before the Cheifs dropped a bomb on the sports world by announcing a record-breaking extension with QB Patrick Mahomes. If you don’t believe this makes any difference for the NY Giants, let me explain.

We’ll focus on what you may be only to consider the two true stars – or potential stars – currently on the NY Giants. I don’t think I even have to say their names.

Mahomes signed a mammoth contract that is now the single highest-paid contract in sports history. In total, he signed on for 10 more years with Kansas City for a max value of $503M. Yes, $503M.

Clearly, the Kansas City Cheifs are trying to pull a savvy move and get Mahomes an extension as soon as possible because he is that special of a player and the team must figure in a few years that crazy cap number will be the same, or maybe even less, than the other top quarterbacks.

While Dak Prescott is surely happy to hear this news as his negotiations with the Cowboys continue, for us NY Giants fans, this could have us paying Daniel Jones 10’s of millions more in salary when he’ up for his second contract

Now, Jones has only played one year and is not up for a new deal until after the 2021 season. That will be into the new CBA era, where the cap is going to skyrocket.

Simply put, the more the highest-paid quarterback earns the better for the rest of the quarterbacks.

So, if Daniel Jones continues to play well for the NY Giants, Patrick Mahomes unintentionally made his future contract negotiations more favorable to him and less favorable to Dave Gettleman and the NY Giants by setting an astronomical contract ceiling.

This was bound to happen with the ever-rising salary cap anyway as quarterbacks make the most money by far and are considered the most important part of any team, but $503M is just a staggering number I don’t think anyone would have guessed would have been possible – this came out of nowhere.

The good news is, if the NY Giants want to discuss a similar type of contract with Jones after year three, it’ll mean he continued to play very well in 2020 and 2021.

And that’s exactly what I expect to happen.

Could this also affect Saquon Barkley’s upcoming negotiations with the NY Giants?

Now, onto the second player on the NY Giants that could potentially break the bank. While at first, it might now seem like Mahomes’ deal would have anything to do with a runningback like Saquon Barkley, but think again.

Saquon is looked at around the league as at bare minimum a top three runningback and many consider the youngster to have Hall of Fame potential.

So, in essence, Mahomes’ breaking the bank can only help Saquon in future negotiations too. Christian McCafferty recently set the bar for the newly highest-paid runningback contract, and between that, the cap coming up and Mahomes breaking the $500M barrier, all superstar players had to be jumping for joy yesterday.

2020 will be a pivotal year in Barkley’s career, and since the cap is going up so fast, he could wind up breaking the $20M barrier and become the highest-paid back of all-time.

Most of us here at GMENHQ are strongly against giving Barkley a new contract as soon as he’s eligible even if he’s an All-Pro in 2020 because the value of a runningback is far less than a quarterback.

Still, this monster deal that Mahomes signed is good news for every superstar, which is what every NY Giants fan is hoping Daniel Jones and Saquon Barkley to be.