"Ten years, two hundred million US dollars; one hundred million US dollars in guaranteed money; effective from the 2021 season."
The prologue of a brand-new history slowly unfolds.
This means Li Wei will become the highest-paid running back in the league, the first in history to cross the twenty million annual salary threshold, a chasm that running backs have long strived and fought to overcome, finally breached.
This means Li Wei will become the first running back in league history to sign a ten-year contract, shattering the prejudice barrier that running backs are merely consumables—
In ten years, an annual salary of twenty million US dollars will likely still be an astounding number for running backs.
This means Li Wei will become only the second player in history, after Rodgers, to exceed one hundred million in guaranteed money, and he's not a quarterback.
A series of numbers, a series of shocks.
