Agent’s Take: An inside look at playoff pay and how several QBs can benefit from winning the Super Bowl

Cornerback Rashad Fenton got a nice consolation prize when the Chiefs won the Super Bowl last season although he wasn’t on the team. He made $113,000 because of the way money gets allocated during the postseason. He was eligible for the money since he was with Chiefs for seven games in 2022 before being traded to the Falcons.

Players are paid much differently in the playoffs than during the regular season. A majority of players take a sizable pay cut in the playoffs because their salaries have no bearing on what they make during the postseason. Playoff money comes from a league pool instead of from NFL teams. There is a specific amount for each playoff round where each eligible player gets paid the same.

Pay scale

Players will receive the following amounts for the 2023 season’s playoffs:

Wild card round

Division winners: $50,500Other wild card teams: $45,500Wild card byes: $45,500

Divisional round: $50,500

Conference championship game: $73,000

Super Bowl

Winning team: $164,000Losing team: $89,000

Players earn their base salary over the course of the 18-week regular season. For example, Lions quarterback Jared Goff earned a little more than $1.165 million per week from his $20.975 million base salary, which was the league’s second highest, during the regular season. He made $50,500 for Detroit’s wild card playoff game win over the Rams, as did backup linebacker Malcolm Rodriguez and the rest of their Lions teammates. Rodriguez earned $48,333 each regular season week. Postseason money for wild card and divisional playoff games isn’t that much more than the weekly earnings of a player making the $750,000 first-year player minimum salary ($41,167 per week).

$338,000 is the maximum a player can make in this season’s playoffs from his current team. The Super Bowl winner would have to be a division winner that participated in the wild card round (Bills, Buccaneers, Chiefs, Cowboys, Lions or Texans). The most…

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Author : Joel Corry

Publish date : 2024-01-19 20:04:39

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