Denver Broncos — Russell Wilson
Base Salary: $8,000,000
Wilson’s base salary for this season doesn’t tell the whole story. When the Broncos traded for the former Super Bowl winner, the team inked him to a lucrative extension (five-year, $242.5 million) on top of the two years he had remaining on his previous deal with the Seahawks. In ’23, his base salary was reduced to $8 million after the team paid out a whopping $20 million to him as part of stipulated guarantees. In reality, Wilson is getting paid around $49 million per year until 2028 to be Denver’s QB. If you watched him play at all last season, you’d know that is disastrous amount of money to pay at his current state. Wilson regressed substantially in his first year with the Broncos, and the team hopes new HC Sean Payton can revert him to a Pro Bowl level QB.
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