The Seattle Seahawks and Indianapolis Colts could face off in the Super Bowl next month.The Seahawks and/or Colts also could be eliminated from the playoffs by Sunday night.When it comes to one important item on each team's agenda, it doesn't matter which happens.Russell Wilson and Andrew Luck are the two best young quarterbacks in the NFL, the cream of the 2012 quarterback bumper crop and the heirs obvious to Tom Brady and Peyton Manning. It's time for them to get paid.
Wilson and Luck just finished the three non-negotiable years of their rookie contracts. When the 2014 regular season ended, the window for renegotiations and extensions officially opened.Wilson is the most underpaid person in the sports universe, slated to earn just below $800,000 in 2015 (though some built-in escalators will boost that figure a bit). As the first pick in the 2012 draft, Luck is better compensated (about $3.5 million in 2015) and can be easily handcuffed to a lucrative fifth-year option for 2016. But Luck just missed the top-pick contract bonanza that showered crazy cash on Matthew Stafford and Sam Bradford, with unfortunate consequences.
It's time for Luck to start earning perennial playoff quarterback money as well, and for the Colts to chart their course for the rest of the decade.The alarm bell has sounded in Seattle and Indy: The pipe dream of low-cost, high-caliber quarterbacking will soon be over. But just what are Wilson and Luck worth? Can the Seahawks and Colts afford to pay it? And if they can, what will it mean for the other stars on each roster and the long-range plans of each franchise?
Here's a step-by-step guide that will lead Wilson, Luck and their respective general managers to an all-smiles press conference and a half-decade of championship-caliber stability with a minimum of fuss. John Schneider and Ryan Grigson: Feel free to clip 'n' save.
Source http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2319835-how-to-pay-russell-wilson-and-andrew-luck-what-theyre-worth
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