Veteran Joe Flacco Joins the Philadelphia Eagles
Evaluating the contract of Philadelphia’s new backup quarterback
The Eagles may have just made their best and most confounding signing of the 2021 offseason.
Albeit expensive, this does just enough to signal their confidence in sophomore Jalen Hurts.
You’d like to believe the Eagles can head into the NFL draft with their quarterback room relatively complete (at least at that sixth overall pick).
For now, the Eagles have their backup quarterback, and it's Joe Flacco.
Financial Implications
So Flacco will earn $3.5MM guaranteed in 2021 with the potential to unlock up to an additional $4MM in incentives.
Hurts will make a base salary of $883,871 in 2021, which means Flacco’s making more than the Philadelphia starter for the time being (sigh).
This contract puts Flacco in the 2020 Chase Daniel — A.J. McCarron range in terms of cash-rich backup quarterbacks, and he should undoubtedly rank within the top-ten for 2021.
According to OverTheCap.com, Flacco will be a top-30 paid quarterback in 2021, floating around the Kyler Murray, Josh Allen, Daniel Jones range.
On the other hand, Hurts ranks 53rd out of 94 quarterbacks, around the DeShone Kizer, Dwayne Haskins, Garrett Gilbert Mendoza line.
This is just the nature of a rookie contract, but the Eagles still overpaid for Flacco.
Hopefully, this means that Philadelphia has their quarterback room all but confirmed, and, optimistically, Eagles fans won’t have to see Flacco unlock those incentives in 2021.
Tommy Orme is a former contributing writer to 247Sports, Fanduel, and others living in New York City working in National Media Investment.
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