When the Packers signed Aaron Rodgers to a deal worth up to $110 million in 2013, it was the highest salary per season in NFL history, then-eclipsing Joe Flacco who was issued $120.6 million through six years just a month prior.

Rodgers would go on to make $60.7 million through the next three seasons and another $12.6 million in 2016. Since then, both Derek Carr and Matthew Stafford hit the jackpot with their respective franchises.

Carr was issued $25 million per year over the offseason from the Raiders, and just last night, Stafford's camp upped the ante, squeezing $27 million from the Lions. That made the Packers' NFC North rival quarterback not just the highest-paid player in the division, but in league history.

Rodgers is now the seventh highest-paid quarterback in the league, and his production certainly doesn't match his financial standings.

If Stafford's making $27 million per year, one would assume Rodgers' agent, David Dunn, would manage to push Rodgers over the $30 million hump. It's no secret he damn well deserves every last penny.

The Packers can get away with it, too. They currently have the eighth-most cap space in the league, sitting on $21.1 million and counting after releasing Colby Pearson, William Stanback and Derek Hart on Monday.

Some of that change may go towards free agent linebacker Ahmad Brooks, who is set to visit Green Bay and meet with the organization today. However, that likely won't make much of a dent in the Packers' spending plans.

Thanks to the way Player Finance specialist Russ Ball handles the Packers' notorious frugal spending, the Packers won't necessarily need to throw every last dollar at Rodgers the same year he signs his new contract.

The deals are broken into increments, and while a player like Rodgers doesn't come with incentive-based loopholes in his contract, the league salary cap could present challenges.

In a piece from Zach Kruse of The Packers Wire in June, former NFL agent Joel Corry noted the inflated salary cap and provided analytics on just how that could impact a new deal for Rodgers.

“The salary cap was $123 million when Rodgers signed his current deal, which contained $54 million in guarantees, of which $44.5 million was fully guaranteed at signing," Corry said, initially to CBS Sports. "Assuming a $180 million salary cap next year, a deal equivalent to Rodgers’ existing one would average slightly over $32 million per year and contain almost $80 million in guarantees, where $65 million is fully guaranteed at signing."

When Rodgers signed his extension in 2013, he had two years remaining on his deal. After 2017, he'll have two years remaining on his current deal as well. It'd be a prime spot for the Packers to tackle an extension with the then-34-year-old quarterback before another middle-range signal-caller ascends the market even further.

Rodgers said in June that he had no lingering worries about when a deal will get done or how long the process will take. Instead, he bestowed every last bit of confidence in his agent.

"That stuff usually takes care of itself, and I have a fantastic agent, he does a great job," Rodgers said according to ESPN's Rob Demovsky. "He worries about that stuff. When it comes to setting the market values, I let that stuff take care of itself. I know my value in this league, and I know the team appreciates me.

"I'm going to continue to make myself an indispensable part of this roster. When you do that and when your time comes up to get a contract, you usually get a contract extension."

Thankfully, due to the Packers' large amount of cap space, there won't be a need to restructure any of the players' deals. Even despite popular banter amongst fans calling for Randall Cobb and Clay Matthews' contract readjustments.

Rodgers is leaps and bounds ahead of the player he was in 2013, which is still somewhat of an oddity considering he was a lethal force to be reckoned with even at the time. That was just before he suffered a broken collarbone and missed seven games of the 2013 season.

Now, he's at the top of his game and will likely continue performing at the high level—if not higher—that he's played at for almost a decade. It would be wise for the Packers to finish a deal with Rodgers sooner rather than later and secure who many proclaim to be the most gifted quarterback the league has ever seen.

Since the 2013 extension, Rodgers has started 57 games. In them, he's thrown 126 touchdowns to just 26 interceptions, completed 64.6 percent of his passes for a 103.5 paser rating.