NFL rewards Kansas City Chiefs RG Trey Smith with performance-based pay bump for second consecutive year
The NFL has officially announced performance-based pay distributions for the 2023 NFL season, and Kansas City Chiefs RG Trey Smith is a big winner for the second consecutive season. The league announced on Monday that NFL players are set to receive nearly $394 million in performance-based for the 2023 season. This comes from the league […]
The NFL has officially announced performance-based pay distributions for the 2023 NFL season, and Kansas City Chiefs RG Trey Smith is a big winner for the second consecutive season.
The league announced on Monday that NFL players are set to receive nearly $394 million in performance-based for the 2023 season. This comes from the league as a benefit collectively bargained between the NFL and NFLPA to compensate players based on their playing time and salary.
A sixth-round draft pick out of the University of Tennessee in 2021, Smith was the top earner in performance-based pay among Chiefs players in both 2022 and 2023. He played the third-highest percentage (96.11%) of offensive snaps in Kansas City in 2023. His 1,086 snaps earned him a No. 7 in the NFL in terms of performance-based pay with over $865K earned.
On top of becoming a back-to-back Super Bowl champion in the past two years, Smith has now earned over $1.5 million in performance-based pay.
Former Ravens G John Simpson (now with the New York Jets) was the top earner in the NFL this past season with over $974K in performance-based pay.
Explaining how the NFL determines performance-based pay each year:
If you’re curious about how exactly performance-based pay is determined, here’s an explainer and chart from the NFL:
Each player on the same team competes for his own share of his club’s Performance-Based Pay pool. The hypothetical example in the table below illustrates how the Player Index works, using a simplified four-player team and a club bonus pool of $1,000,000. Each player receives his share of the pool depending on how his Index compares to those of his teammates.
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