Who is the highest-paid quarterback in the NFL in 2024?
Cincinnati Bengals star Joe Burrow boasts the highest salary of any quarterback in the NFL - and indeed any player in any position. According to figures compiled by Spotrac, a website that specialises in ranking football players’ financial values, Burrow leads the league’s top earners with an average annual pay packet of $55 million , ahead of LA Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert, who is paid an average of $52.5m per season. Baltimore Ravens QB Lamar Jackson completes the podium, coming in just behind Herbert on $52m a year. Quarterbacks dominate NFL’s biggest earners Per Spotrac, quarterbacks occupy the top 15 places in the list of the NFL’s biggest yearly salaries . San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa, who picks up $34m on average per annum, is the top-paid non-QB. Burrow, who is currently recovering from a wrist injury that ruled him out of the rest of the season in Week 11, became the NFL ’s biggest annual earner when he signed a five-year contract extension with the Ben...