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NFL Announces Top 25 Performance Incentive Bonuses For 2024

Originally posted on NFLTradeRumors.co | By Nate Bouda | Last updated Mar 12, 2025 2:13 PM ET

The NFL announced the top 25 earners from the Performance-Based pay benefit.

In total, players will receive $452 million in additional pay as a part of the program, with the amount per player calculated based on snaps and salary levels.

Per the league’s official release:

“NFL players will receive over $452 million in Performance-Based Pay for their performance during the 2024 season, the NFL announced today. The Performance-Based Pay program is a collectively bargained benefit that compensates all players based upon their playing time and salary levels.

“New York Jets’ linebacker Jamien Sherwood earned the highest amount among all NFL players for the 2024 League Year Performance-Based Pay program. His $1,092,206 distribution will more than double his 2024 salary. Sherwood was the Jets’ 2021 fifth-round draft choice out of Auburn. He participated in 92.8% of plays on defense and over 26% of the club’s special team plays.

“Players have been paid nearly $2.8 billion cumulatively since the inception of the Performance-Based Pay program, which was implemented during the 2002 season as part of the NFL’s Collective Bargaining Agreement with the NFL Players Association, and has been carried forward in three subsequent collective bargaining agreements.”

Top 25 Performance-Based Pay Distributions For 2024

Rank	PLAYER	Team	POS.	DISTRIBUTION
1	Jamien Sherwood	N.Y. Jets	LB	$ 1,092,206
2	Jaylon Jones	Indianapolis	CB	$ 1,060,961
3	Michael Jackson	Carolina	CB	$ 1,035,260
4	Daniel Faalele	Baltimore	T	$ 1,020,871
5	Matt Pryor	Chicago	T	$ 1,020,303
6	Kerby Joseph	Detroit	S	$ 996,253
7	Nick Cross	Indianapolis	S	$ 979,597
8	Montaric Brown	Jacksonville	CB	$ 976,637
9	Cordell Volson	Cincinnati	G	$ 931,357
10	Rasheed Walker	Green Bay	T	$ 925,613
11	Dominick Puni	San Francisco	G	$ 898,036
12	Daiyan Henley	L.A. Chargers	LB	$ 892,651

13	Zyon McCollum	Tampa Bay	CB	$ 878,554
14	Ar’Darius Washington	Baltimore	S	$ 876,554
15	Antonio Johnson	Jacksonville	S	$ 872,633
16	Brock Purdy	San Francisco	QB	$ 857,842
17	Isaiah Pola-Mao	Las Vegas	S	$ 855,935
18	Calen Bullock	Houston	S	$ 855,372
19	Andrei Iosivas	Cincinnati	WR	$ 854,095
20	Zach Tom	Green Bay	T	$ 849,141
21	Quentin Lake	L.A. Rams	S	$ 846,653
22	Tariq Woolen	Seattle	CB	$ 841,976
23	Dee Alford	Atlanta	CB	$ 835,394
24	Henry To’oTo’o	Houston	LB	$ 820,070
25	Mason McCormick	Pittsburgh	G	$ 819,102