TO Kicked out of camp

[assgasorgrass]

Poor TO. He only banked 9.16 mil inclulding signing bonus last year. He is due 3.25 mill plus incentives this year, so easily could make over 4 mill this year. That is over 13 mill in two years. He may have had the best year of any Eagles receiver in history, but did he really outplay his contract in the first year?

[72Twenty]

He must be a JH local.

[Grange]

Sadly, this is not how it works. There may be small bonuses included for making the Superbowl, being MVP, or making the Probowl, but not for overachieving on their contract. TO (as an example) had great numbers last year, but he did not receive a dime extra because of it. Its up to the players to renegotiate when they out perform their contract. I can't really blame them since it works the other way around (like you said in your post), where the teams can cut them or pay them less if they don't perform well. Usually the first two or three years of a player's "7 year deal" are guaranteed- the rest are simply options for the team to pick up or not.

Players do get incentives or some call it bonuses for playing well if they negotiate that in their contract. It is similar to a signing bonus. TO may not have had incentives included in his contract, but many players do. Darren Sharper, when he played for the Green Bay Packers had an incentive for getting X number of interceptions. Running Backs often have incentives or bonuses based on the number of yards they get in a season. Most of the time these incentives do not carry over from year to year.