The one (small) downside of Elijah Molden's Chargers contract

Elijah Molden signed a new three-year contract with the LA Chargers worth up to $18.75 million with $13.5 million guaranteed. While the Chargers' urge to bring Molden back into the fold after a breakout season wasn't a surprise, the numbers of the contract certainly popped of the page. An $18.75 million total contract value puts Molden's average annual value at $6.25 million. That's a figure that beats the extension the Alohi Gilman agreed to last year at $5.1 million AAV. Molden's new contract figures also beat what most industry evaluators expected him to get in free agency. PFF's free-agent rankings projected that Molden would get a one-year deal worth up to $4.5 million. Not only did Molden get more guaranteed years than projected, but his AAV beats that deal by nearly $2 million. Of course, the takeaway from that should be that the former Titans' safety impressed both the league and the Chargers in his first season in LA. But it's also worth pointing out that just a day before Molden signed his extensio