NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement

Article 26
Salaries

Section 5(e)(i)
Payment

(e)(i)

A player who is under contract with a Club for an entire 18-week regular season (i.e., 17 regular season games) in any League Year prior to the Final League Year, and whose Paragraph 5 Salary is $1,800,000, will be paid at the rate of $50,000 in equal weekly installments over the course of a 36-week period commencing with the first regular season week through and including the eighteenth week after the final week of that regular season.