Back in 2009 Matt Stafford was the last QB to sign a rookie #1 pick without the implemented rookie salary structure

This was the 2009 summary via google ...
"Matthew Stafford signed a 5 year, $135,000,000 contract with the Detroit Lions, including a $50,000,000 signing bonus, $92,000,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $27,000,000."

Google misled you. It truncated a very important detail: "on August 29, 2017"

Sam Bradford was the final rookie deal on the CBA without slotted rookie pay scale. Their numbers were similar, though.

Bradford: six-year, $78 million deal, which had $50 million of guarantees and a maximum value of $86 million
Stafford: six-year, $72M, with 41.7M guaranteed, max value $78M

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Back in 2009 Matt Stafford was the last QB to sign a rookie #1 pick without the implemented rookie salary structure

This was the 2009 summary via google ...
"Matthew Stafford signed a 5 year, $135,000,000 contract with the Detroit Lions, including a $50,000,000 signing bonus, $92,000,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $27,000,000."

Man if 1st round QB contracts were really that bad back then, I see why teams would give guys a longer time to see what they could become. Thank god it's not like that now, imagine the cardinals if they had rosen on a contract anywhere near that and then had the top pick the following year, what would they have done.

Traded the pick for a huge return? Not like we have any example of that...except the 2012 darft.

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Man if 1st round QB contracts were really that bad back then, I see why teams would give guys a longer time to see what they could become. Thank god it's not like that now, imagine the cardinals if they had rosen on a contract anywhere near that and then had the top pick the following year, what would they have done.

Traded the pick for a huge return? Not like we have any example of that...except the 2012 darft.

They would still be stuck with Rosen. That is the point, lol.

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