It’s not often that NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers finds himself in the cellar of the League’s performance-based statistics, but that ‘s precisely where the three-time MVP resides in terms of performance-based pay in 2023.
The performance-based pay structure compensates players based upon their play time and base salary. It is designed to help those players with low base to cash a larger check when they find themselves on the field for a high percentage of snaps. Brock Purdy of the San Francisco 49ers, for example, has a base salary of $870,000, but scored a performance-based payout of $739,765, nearly doubling his season’s financial take.
Rodgers survived just four offensive plays of the 2023 season before snapping his Achilles tendon, registering just 0.33% of the NY Jets’ snaps. That was good for a performance-based payout of $81.14. Save those tears for the Jets signal caller, however. Rodgers is, by no means, struggling to make ends meet. His base take of $75 million over two years is certainly putting food on the table.
[People]
