NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement

Article 26
Salaries

Section 5(e)(vii)
Payment

(e)(vii)

A player who is suspended for the second and third weeks of the regular season in any League Year prior to the Final League Year and whose contract is then terminated following the eighth week of the regular season (i.e., the player was under contract for eight weeks), 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) $100,000 (i.e., the remaining amount of forfeited Paragraph 5 Salary), which shall be deducted from the outstanding Paragraph 5 Salary owed to the player in lump sum no more than 14 days after contract termination.