It shouldn’t come as a shock to anybody that Aaron Rodgers earned the bottom performance-based pay within the NFL in 2023.
Rodgers, in fact, was injured just four plays 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 obtained simply $81.14 in performance-based pay, ESPN Adam Schefter reported on Tuesday.
“The system rewards all NFL gamers primarily based on their play time and base wage. If a participant has a low base wage however performs a major variety of snaps, he earns extra by the system,” Schefter defined in a put up on X.
“With Rodgers having the alternative — a excessive wage and enjoying simply 0.33% of snaps on account of his torn Achilles — his complete quantity got here to $81.14.”
By comparability, 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy made $739,795 underneath the player-performance program, together 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 the most in performance-based pay, pulling in $974,613.
The league paid out a complete of $393.8 million by this system for the 2023 season.
The Jets and Rodgers are absolutely hoping his quantity goes up in 2024 since it might imply he’d be on the sphere extra ceaselessly than he was in 2023.
Rodgers has had an attention-grabbing offseason, which included experiences that he was being considered for running mate by impartial presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy as an alternative tapped Nicole Shanahan to be his vice president pick.
On Monday, a put up by Del Norte Excessive College’s soccer workforce introduced that Rodgers was becoming a member of its teaching workers, although it was later confirmed to be an April Fool’s Day joke by the San Diego college.
