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Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has a lot riding on the team’s Week 18 game against the Baltimore Ravens — which he has admitted might be the last one of his career if the Steelers lose — but he also has a significant amount of money riding on the outcome, as well.
Rodgers is one of the few Steelers players to have contract incentives, and the first one on his list is a big one. All but one of Rodgers’ incentives are team-based, and the first of the bunch is a $500,000 incentive for the Steelers making the playoffs.
With Sunday’s game against the Baltimore Ravens a winner-take-all affair for the AFC North title, Rodgers will pocket a cool half a million if he leads his team to victory.
Rodgers has further incentives, most of them tied to the team’s success in the postseason. He’ll earn another $600,000 if the Steelers win in the Wild Card Round, $750,000 in the Divisional Playoff, $1 million in the AFC Championship Game, and $1.5 million if they somehow were to win Super Bowl LX.
He has another $1.5 million on the line if he wins the NFL MVP Award, but that seems very unlikely.
Rodgers will earn the last of his $3.65 million base salary this week, to go along with a $10 million signing bonus.
He isn’t the only Steelers player with a contract incentive, but he seems to be the only one likely to reach it. Defensive tackle Cam Heyward can earn $1.6 million if he gets to eight sacks and the Steelers make the playoffs, but with just 3.5 sacks on the season, that seems very unlikely.
This article originally appeared on Steelers Now: Aaron Rodgers Has a Half Million Dollars Riding on Ravens Game
