Nobody ever complains about an extra check. But for NFL players, mid-March, performance-based pay bonuses come in various sizes.
An NFC East starting quarterback, an All-Pro safety and two Super Bowl champions are among the biggest earners in the full list of NFL performance-based pay released Wednesday.
Players will receive a total of $134.16 million in performance-based pay, a collectively bargained benefit that relates directly to players whose salaries didn't necessarily reflect their playing time. There's also a smaller veterans' pool. For the performance-based pay, each NFL team receives $4.1925 million to distribute among its players based on a playing time-salary index from the 2017 season.