NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement

Article 26
Salaries

Section 5(e)(iv)
Payment

(e)(iv)

A player who signs an NFL Player Contract prior to the third week of the regular season in any League Year prior to the Final League Year, and who is under contract with that Club for the duration of the 18-week regular season (i.e., the player was under contract for sixteen weeks), 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 32-week period commencing with the third week of the regular season through and including the sixteenth week after the final week of that regular season.