He didn't have 1,000 receiving yards in any of his four NFL seasons with the Cardinals. "I've been taking my incentives one incentive at a time," said Floyd, who finishes with 10.5 sacks this season. About Spotrac; Media Requests; Full playoff schedule | More content . NFL draft questions for teams in the top 10: Will the Colts trade up? Smith has thrown for 3,886 yards and 27 touchdowns. Dolphins QB Ryan Fitzpatrick Maximum: $5 million Expected bonus: $2.5 million Dolphins head coach Brian Flores'. All in all, the league divested $8.5MM per club. Another $500,000 is made with at least 90% playtime with an additional $750,000 for this playtime and making the playoffs. Best remaining free agents available The team requirement was necessary to turn the $3.375 million of incentives Brady earned last season from likely to be earned to NLTBE. Smith gets $250,000 with 55% or more offensive playtime. Given that many contracts have performance incentives built in, there are some players who can earn themselves a nice payday this weekend if they put together some impressive outings in the final game of the season. Please check the opt-in box to acknowledge that you would like to subscribe. Brady is leading the NFL in these two categories this season. Tot Player Comp for the '19 season will be $228.7m/club; $188.2m of that is salary cap, but there is another $40.5m of benefits that is distributed. He received the fourth-highest total from the veteran pool. It's an additional $500,000 with 10 or more sacks. So while those might be a stretch for Brady, he also enters the weekend leading the league with 40 touchdown passes, and leading the league with 4,990 passing yards. Maximum: $4.5 millionExpected bonus: $4.5 million. Smith-Schuster has 74 catches for 877 yards so far this season. Winning one playoff game is worth $500,000 more. He enters the final weekend of the year sitting at nine sacks. He'll earn another $750,000 if he plays and the Rams win in the divisional round, and another $750,000 if he plays and Los Angeles wins the NFC championship. 29 overall -- Ravens linebacker Patrick Queen and Miami Dolphins cornerback Noah Igbinoghene -- earned $181,141 and $139,826 respectively. Conklin makes $1,333,334, $2,666.667 or $4 million, respectively, with a minimum of 55%, 65% or 75% offensive playtime. That may be out of reach. The last couple of weeks of the regular season can create an interesting dilemma for teams that have players with incentives and salary escalators -- the two major types of performance bonuses -- hanging in the balance. He has an incentive paying $125,000 for every win in which he plays at least 60% of the Washington's offensive snaps for a maximum of 12 wins. The Chiefs are hoping to get Jones back from the COVID-19 list this week. Including Bozeman, three of the top five leaders in total performance-based pay were offensive linemen. Cooper Kupp saved the Rams Green signed a one-year, $6 million deal worth up to $8.5 million through incentives with theCardinals to try to rejuvenate a career that has been plagued by injuries in recent years. He was one of 26 players to have earned at least $500,000. 2:43 pm ET. Instead, he joined the Vikings on a backloaded, three-year, $42 million deal worth up to $44 million with incentives. Floyd is playing on a one-year, $10 million contract, and Rams coach Sean McVay said last week he would like to find a way to retain the lanky pass-rusher. He is playing on a one-year $3.5 million contract worth up to $7 million though incentives. Hightower makes $375,000 for 65% or more defensive playtime, with an additional $250,000 for 70%. No. ", How did the Rams come back? Carolina Panthers linebacker Haason Reddick has 11 sacks this season. He's able to collect on the 70% or 80% snap count barrier only if the Dolphins finish the season having improved by NFL ranking from last season in either total net defensive yards allowed, net yards allowed per rushing play or net yards allowed per passing play. Now, he can earn another $750,000 if he plays in 70% of Miami's plays, another $750,000 if he plays 80% of snaps and $1 million if he finishes the season playing in at least 90% Miami's snaps for a maximum of $2.5 million. Calais Campbell freed up $3 million of 2021 salary cap space in a contract renegotiation where he reduced his 2021 compensation from $10 million to $8 million and turned a $1 million incentive for making the Pro Bowl from likely to not likely by coupling it with a laundry list of individual and team statistical improvements from the 2020 season. Hightower's defensive playtime is 66.32% through 14 games. Log in Register. His 10.9 yards-per-completion average is No. Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones needed 2.5 sacks Sunday to collect a $1.25 million incentive. This means Hightower's 2020 contract year became his 2021 contract year, which includes $2 million in incentives. Seven, nine and 11 sacks are each worth an additional $1 million. A fourth-round pick in 2018, Whitehead started every game for the Super Bowl champs and had two interceptions. 6-keys: media/spln/nfl/reg/free/stories, By pressing sign up, I confirm that I have read and agree to the. The Commanders won five of the nine games Heinicke has started. Jones has a clause in his contract that pays him a bonus of $1.25 million if he reaches ten sacks on a season. 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I agree to receive the "Pick Six Newsletter" and marketing communications, updates, special offers (including partner offers), and other information from CBS Sports and the Paramount family of companies. Snap counts and playing time in this story were used from ESPN Stats & Information. That is another $1 million in bonuses. $4 million of incentives based on his sack total and Atlanta improving on last season's four wins, which has occurred, were included. On Thursday, the league announced the amount distributed for performance-based pay for rookies and veterans. Maximum: $4 millionExpected bonus: $4 million. So far, Howard has played in 928 of 1,022 of the Dolphins' plays (90.8%). The regular season playtime isn't an issue, but Green Bay still needs another touchdown to exceed last year's mark.There's also $100,000 each for finishing top three in the NFL for the following categories with the same team improvement, a minimum of 224 pass attempts, and by taking 72.5% or more Green Bay's offensive snaps during the season: (1) passer rating, (2) completion percentage, (3) interception percentage, (4) yards per pass and (5) touchdown passes. There are also $500,000 in incentives, which aren't achievable, tied to Tampa Bay's playoff success ($250,000 for getting to the Super Bowl and $250,000 for winning the Super Bowl), Gronkowski taking at least 65% of the offensive snaps and improvement from 2020 NFL ranking in average net yards gained per rushing play. Brady needs the Buccaneers to have a better yards-per-rush average this year than last year -- something Tampa Bay currently has at 4.35 yards per rush compared to 4.12 last season -- to unlock some of his incentives. Kansas City has clinched a playoff berth. The Bucs, who host Carolina on Sunday (4:25 p.m. Both types of bonuses can be used to bridge the financial gap when there is a disagreement in a negotiation between a player's agent and the team on the player's value. It's not clear if that is cumulative -- the Packers have two returns this year and last year -- or if it's one individual category. An injury plagued 2020 season prompted Jadeveon Clowney to take a one-year, $8 million contract year worth a maximum of $10 million with incentives from the Browns. There's an additional $500,000 for each playoff win where Dalton has at least 50% playtime for the wild card, divisional and conference championship games. He gets another $500,000 for 80% or more playtime and $650,000 more for at least 85% of Miami's offensive snaps. Incentives are typically paid in February or March following the season in which they are earned. section: | slug: agents-take-inside-the-2021-performance-bonuses-of-20-notable-players-including-tom-brady-and-stefon-diggs | sport: football | route: article_single.us | Two more sacks in the final three games will get Golden the entire $2 million. For instance, in 2022, each team got $8.5m in performance-based pay to be divided among all the players depending on their salary and playtime. Jones has 12 sacks this season. With the Football Team winning six games -- all with him at quarterback -- he's already made $750,000 this year with the chance for another $125,000 on Sunday against the Giants. Fifty percent offensive playtime, which Green has easily exceeded, and the Cardinals making the playoffs is worth $250,000. Eleven players received more than $500,000. He totaled two interceptions, five pass deflections and two forced fumbles in 2019. Heinicke signed a two-year, $4.75 million deal worth a maximum of $8.75 million through incentives in 2021. Free-agency coverage | More NFL . Now imagine what it must be like when you learn you have found an extra $622,056. Wilson is completing 65.4% of his passes this season. There's also $1 million for being selected to the Pro Bowl or being named first-team All-NFL by the Associated Press. Gilmore didn't sign a two-year, $20 million deal worth up to $23 million with incentives until the middle of April when the 2022 NFL Draft was approaching. Generally, any incentives with higher thresholds than the player or team's statistical performance in the prior season qualify as NLTBE. All-in approach pays off for Rams The two-year, $13 million deal Brown signed to remain with the Patriots is worth as much as $22 million because of $4.5 million in annual playtime incentives. If that happens, it could cushion the blow of missing out on the Pro Bowl -- and the $1 million that would have come with that. Contract Notes: $2.82M guaranteed (signing bonus + 2021 salary) 2023: Proven Performance Bonus. He wasn't the only Buccaneer, either. His offensive playtime is 66.31%. Miami leads the league in average net yards gained per passing play. With 12 catches for 90 yards and two touchdowns Sunday, the wide receiver maxed out his $1.2 million worth of 2020 incentives, according to a source. Smith played sparingly after catching four passes for 46 yards early in the contest. Tepid free agency interest after an injury-plagued 2021 season prompted Smith-Schuster to sign a one-year, $3.25 million contract with the Chiefs worth up to $10.75 million through incentives. Rams outside linebacker Leonard Floyd entered Sunday's game needing a half-sack to earn a $1.25 million incentive, which perhaps explains his jubilant celebration when he took down Cardinals backup quarterback Chris Streveler to surpass the 10-sack mark. NFL players are about to receive a little extra spending money. I had firsthand experience with this scenario when I was an agent. He can earn $250,000 if he finishes the year among the top seven kickers in field goals made, another $250,000 if he is in the top ten kickers in field goals made, and another $250,000 if he finishes the season with a conversion rate of over 90% on field goal attempts. Resting a player with money on the line to preserve him for the postseason or to evaluate unproven players on teams out of playoff contention can create friction between the locker room and the coaches/management. Collins was on track for the $2 million in incentives and the $2 million salary escalator before tearing the ACL and MCL in his left knee during Week 16's game versus the Patriots. Stay prepared during the 2021 NFL Season From Week 1 until the Super Bowl, we create the highest-quality NFL fantasy, DFS, and prop betting content. When Russell Wilson became the NFL's first $35 million per year player in April 2019, a mechanism to increase his 2023 salary was also included in his four-year extension. Chiefs cornerback Bashaud Breeland needed one interception Sunday for $100,000. The former sixth-round draft pick is set to become a free agent this offseason. As Statista states, an NFL player's lowest salary will be a whopping $1.065 million in 2030. Incentives are also a way for a player taking a pay cut to make back some or all of the money he is losing through the salary reduction. A.J. Coupling an individual achievement with a team statistical performance also makes an incentive NLTBE. Green has 46 catches for 718 yards in 14 games this season. Option bonuses are treated the same as signing bonuses, except they have a trigger date later in the contract meaning they kick in the year after signing or later. If he picks up two more, he'll earn $1 million. Jaguars Pro Bowl wide receiver Jimmy Smith, who was represented by the sports agency I helped found, had $1.85 million in annual incentives in his contract. Can the Lions fix their defense? His fellow Cardinals linebacker, Markus Golden, already made $1 million because of his 11 sacks ($250,000 for six sacks, $250,000 for eight sacks and $500,000 for 10 sacks). The former sixth-round pick out of Louisiana Tech played on nearly 72% of the team's snaps and started 15 games. He enters play this weekend second in field goals made with 35, so those bonuses seem to be safe. Touchdown passes: He's tied for third with 35. But if he hits 13 on the season? There's an additional $250,000 at the 80% threshold. The Seahawks were going to take a knee with 22 seconds left but changed the play in the huddle to an end-around pop pass for Moore. This year's rankings are tied for 17th, 22nd and 12th in these categories. It would increase to $1.25 million if the Bucs win in the divisional round, $1.75 million if they win the NFC championship, capping at $2.25 million if he repeats as Super Bowl champion. The bonus pay will help him offset the money he lost from a two-game suspension at the start of 2019 for violating the league's personal conduct policy. Henry hit the 1,300-yard mark in Week15's game against the Chargers. For others, he just needs to hit the mark for bonuses, according to Roster Management System, which provided all the incentive information for this story. There are entirely too many performance bonuses in NFL contracts to recognize them all. 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Smith was set to return to the Ravens, who took him in 2015's fourth round, on a four-year, $35 million contract before Von Miller and Chandler Jones signed for deals averaging significantly more. There's an additional $125,000 for hitting the 60% playtime threshold in a playoff victory that's capped at two wins. Poyer isn't going to earn any of the playtime related incentives. In these roster bonuses, teams will usually specify a date that the player will earn the bonus with a clause that reads like, "Player will receive $2 million roster bonus on the second. There's another $500,000 for being NFC champions where Brady takes at least three-fourths of the offensive snaps in the game. The amount increases to $500,000 and $750,000 with seven and nine sacks, respectively. Incentives give Whitworth an opportunity to earn back $4.5 million of the $5.5 million.Whitworth makes $1 million, $2 million or $3 million respectively with a minimum of 40%, 47% or 54% offensive playtime and a Rams improved NFL ranking in either points scored, average net yards per passing play or average net yards per rushing play. If he adds just one more sack he will earn another $750,000 in bonuses. Wish I had this at my place of employment. If he plays 65% of New Englands defensive snaps this season the bonus is worth $375,000, and that rises to $625,000 if he plays 70% of New Englands snaps, $875,000 if he hits 75%, and $1 million if he plays on 80% of the Patriots defensive snaps. The $1 million in incentives is based on the three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year's sack total for 2022.
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