NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement

Article 26
Salaries

Section 5(e)(vi)
Payment

(e)(vi)

A player who is suspended without pay for the second and third weeks of the regular season in any League Year prior to the Final League Year during which he is under contract with a Club for an entire 18-week regular season, and whose Paragraph 5 Salary is $1,800,000, will forfeit his entire Paragraph 5 Salary for the two weeks for which he was suspended, which amounts shall be withheld at the rate of (i) $50,000 in equal weekly installments over the course of the second and third weeks of the regular season; and (ii) $50,000 in equal weekly installments over the course of the twentieth and twentyfirst weeks of the 36-week pay period (i.e., seventeen weeks after the second and third weeks, respectively).