The NFL’s Performance-Based Pay program is a nice program, one that helps reward players who have a major impact to their teams while working on low salaries. It frequently pays out high dollar values to late-round draft picks and undrafted free agents, players who are typically playing on league-minimum salaries, and as a bonus program there is no salary cap impact. The league announced the disbursements from the 2019 season on Thursday and the Green Bay Packers had one of the biggest beneficiaries of this program, which is eligible to rookies and veterans alike.
Allen Lazard, a former undrafted free agent who came over from the Jacksonville Jaguars late in 2018, broke out in a big way for the Packers in 2019 and became the team’s number two wide receiver over the second half of the season.