They Weren’t Smoking: Matt Cassel’s Chiefs Extension Makes Perfect Sense

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Published: July 16, 2009

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... Cassel's recent signing of a contract extension with the Kansas City Chiefs has stirred up a buzz, and not just with the Chiefs.

The numbers of the deal are staggering for some to believe for a 15-game starter, otherwise a career clipboard carrier.

The terms of the deal are as follows: six years, $63 million, with $28 million guaranteed for the first two years and more than $40 million through the third year.

For a point of reference, I want to outline the deal that JaMarcus Russell signed with the Raiders in 2007: six years, $68 million, with over $31 million guaranteed and more than $44 million over the first four years of the contract.

I don't know about you, but signing an unproven commodity out of college for the same ballpark contract that Cassel was given is simply ludicrous!

One could argue until he or she is blue in the face about Cassel's potential to boom or bust, but frankly that's been hashed and re-hashed to the point of ...

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