Thesize of Cam Newton's contract extension with the Panthers reportedly $103.8 million over five years, $60 million guaranteed,an average of
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Jon Ryan Jersey of the 49ers Colin Kaepernick, decelerators.Kaepernicks$114 million contract signed last summer is just 11.4 percent guaranteed, at $12.9 million.The Bengals Andy Dalton, who signed earlier in the offseason, has $17.7 percent of his $96 million deal guaranteed.Ryan Tannehill, the first of the 2012 quarterback draft cla s to sign, has 27.9 percent of his $77 million deal with the Dolphins guaranteed.They're allminuscule next to Staffordspackageand le s weighty thanRodgersguarantee, which still is just under half of the reported total at 49.1 percent.ButRodgershas won a Super Bowl and an MVP award.The Ravens'Joe Flacco, a Super Bowl MVP,had 24percent of his$120 million deal guaranteed.Newton and the Panthers have broacheduncharted territory. Yet its territory that could, in various ways, be overrun later this offseason by either the Colts Andrew Luck or the Seahawks Ru sell Wilson or both.As Newton saw others set the market for him, he now altersthe market for that pair. Now, for guaranteed money promised to the NFL's best pa
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