When the news that tight end Mike Gesicki would join the New England Patriots first broke, reports stated that he had signed a one-year pact worth up to $9 million. That “up to” did a lot of heavy lifting, though: in order for Gesicki to earn that much money, he would have to hit all of the incentives embedded into the deal.
And those incentives make up a significant part of that initially mentioned sum. In fact, as a look at the details shows (as shared by KPRC2’s Aaron Wilson), the base value of the contract is “only” $4.