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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
It's just been suggested in the usual opinion columns (PFT, SI etc..). Certainly they'll have to franchise him as he is a FA, and since he's started an NFL game and his arm is live, he's going to get what market says. And maybe that's my point, that the market is totally ridiculous. Remember Matt Flynn got $9 million a season off 1 start. And the going rate has gone up since then.
Yeah, he made plays but he still hasn't accomplished anything, nor has he looked like a top QB yet. He's been asked to game manage so far, and he has. But being a game manager now means $15 million a season. Alex Smith makes that, so does Ryan Tannehill. The Redskins will probably be forced to give that to Kirk Cousins too. If he has even 2 great games down the stretch he'll be at $20 million a season. Kaepernick got $60 million guaranteed off 3 games against the Packers. Market is just absurd.
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Kaepernick also made it to the Superbowl with a pretty average offense to work with. At one point he earned that contact.