{"id":904204,"date":"2026-05-29T07:24:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/904204\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T07:24:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:24:29","slug":"which-nfl-players-have-the-most-money-at-stake-in-2026-kyler-murray-christian-watson-could-cash-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/904204\/","title":{"rendered":"Which NFL players have the most money at stake in 2026? Kyler Murray, Christian Watson could cash in"},"content":{"rendered":"

This slot could just as easily be filled by Michael Penix Jr.<\/a>, whose football journey has been waylaid by another ACL tear, but it just feels like Tagovailoa will get the first — and possibly best — chance to turn his career back in the right direction. Like Kyler Murray, Tua signed a one-year deal<\/a> for the league minimum, with the Falcons taking advantage of the offset language in his Dolphins deal.<\/p>\n

At 28, Tagovailoa still is relatively young, but he’s had a long, troublesome injury history that includes a fractured hip and several concussions. He also has no experience with new head coach Kevin Stefanski and must beat out the incumbent Penix in this fascinating, all-lefty battle. Again, though, Penix is currently working his way back to full health after undergoing major knee surgery in November.<\/p>\n

In a perfect world for Tua, he’s a strong fit as a rhythm-and-timing quarterback in Stefanski’s wide-zone, play-action-heavy system. Atlanta has a potent run game, a true WR1 in Drake London<\/a>, an excellent middle-field option in Kyle Pitts<\/a> and the makings of a solid offensive line.<\/p>\n

There’s no doubt Tagovailoa is at a career crossroads, and his history could work against him, but worse quarterbacks have overcome more to find second lives in the NFL. He still has a great shot to cash in with a strong 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This slot could just as easily be filled by Michael Penix Jr., whose football journey has been waylaid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[90,254,1501,2005,7,345,2004,392,2381,8059,3924,110,755,4827,259,56,255,6,609,109,4000,23119,394,3452,26524],"class_list":["post-904204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indianapolis-colts","tag-analysis","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-christian-watson","tag-colts","tag-football","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-indianapolis","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-indianapoliscolts","tag-jc-latham","tag-jevon-holland","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-kayvon-thibodeaux","tag-kyler-murray","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-rashee-rice","tag-tariq-woolen","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-tua-tagovailoa","tag-will-mcdonald-iv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116656672845334830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}