Is Gardner Minshew Mike LaF'leur's QB1? By Walter Mitchell Mike LaFleur's early signing of QB Garnder Minshew came as a surprise, didn't it? Per reports, LaFleur's first choice was Jimmy Garoppolo, but when the negotiations hit a snag, LaFleur quickly pivoted his attention to Gardner Minshew whom he signed to a 1 year $5.75M contract with incentives that could make him as much as $8.25M. $5.14M of Minshew's is fully guaranteed. The surprise was: 1. How Minshew's $5.14M guaranteed money eclipsed Jacoby Brissett's $1.5M. 2. Minshew was coming off an injury-riddled one-year stint as Patrick Mahomes' backup in KC. After Mahomes suffered an ACL injury, Minshew, in what turned out to be his only start, suffered a knee injury of his own, which at first was feared to be an ACL, but thankfully turned out to be a deep bone bruise instead. 3. After Mike LaFleur had told the Arizona media that his top priorities for a QB in his system are: (1) supreme toughnes...