It shouldn’t come as a shock to anybody that Aaron Rodgers earned the bottom performance-based pay within the NFL in 2023.
Rodgers, after all, was injured simply 4 performs into the Jets’ season opener in opposition to the Payments on Sept. 11, kickstarting a chaotic yr for Gang Inexperienced at quarterback.
Due to that, Rodgers acquired simply $81.14 in performance-based pay, ESPN Adam Schefter reported on Tuesday.
“The system rewards all NFL gamers based mostly on their play time and base wage. If a participant has a low base wage however performs a big variety of snaps, he earns extra by way of the system,” Schefter defined in a publish on X.
“With Rodgers having the alternative — a excessive wage and taking part in simply 0.33% of snaps as a consequence of his torn Achilles — his complete quantity got here to $81.14.”
By comparability, 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy made $739,795 below the player-performance program, along with his base wage being $985,000 in 2023, the second yr of his rookie deal.
New Jets guard John Simpson, who was a member of the Ravens final season, made essentially the most in performance-based pay, pulling in $974,613.
The league paid out a complete of $393.8 million by way of this system for the 2023 season.
The Jets and Rodgers are certainly hoping his quantity goes up in 2024 since it will imply he’d be on the sector extra continuously than he was in 2023.
Rodgers has had an fascinating offseason, which included experiences that he was being thought-about for working mate by unbiased presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy as an alternative tapped Nicole Shanahan to be his vice chairman decide.
On Monday, a publish by Del Norte Excessive Faculty’s soccer crew introduced that Rodgers was becoming a member of its teaching employees, although it was later confirmed to be an April Idiot’s Day joke by the San Diego college.
