Packers guard Sean Rhyan missed out on a hefty pay elevate in probably the most brutal means attainable.
Two snaps. If Rhyan had performed simply two extra snaps at any level via his first three seasons in Inexperienced Bay, he would have raised his wage by a whopping $2 million.
Underneath his rookie deal signed in 2022, Rhyan’s 2025 base wage is about to be $1,363,571. This quantity would’ve practically tripled to $3.406 million with that additional pair of snaps.
In Article 7, Part 4 of the NFL’s collective bargaining settlement, it states that any participant taken in Rounds 3-7 of the NFL draft who “participated in a minimum of 35% of his Club’s offensive or defensive plays in any two of his first three regular season or participated in a ‘cumulative average’ of at least 35% of his Club’s offensive or defensive plays over his first three regular seasons” would qualify for the elevate.
In Rhyan’s case, he was chosen within the third spherical by the Packers in 2022 and wound up enjoying 1,144 of a attainable 3,272 offensive snaps — 34.952% of Inexperienced Bay’s offensive snaps via his three common seasons with the crew.
In his rookie season, he performed only one snap — however it was on particular groups which isn’t thought of within the counting for the motivation. The Packers had 1,094 offensive performs on the season.
He additionally missed six video games and misplaced $235,000 as a rookie attributable to suspension for violating the NFL’s coverage on performance-enhancing substances.
Rhyan bought a bit extra motion in his sophomore season in 2023, when he performed 183 snaps out of a attainable 1,096 performs in a backup guard position.
By 12 months three, Rhyan had labored his means onto the beginning offensive line, as he performed 961 of a attainable 1,082 offensive snaps.
Including salt to the wound, Rhyan’s agent, Cameron Foster, advised ESPN he believed his shopper had reached the 35% mark due to snap counts discovered on-line from Professional Soccer Reference.
Sadly for Rhyan, the NFL doesn’t use PFR’s numbers or some other web site’s.
Rhyan did, nonetheless, obtain a further near-$700,000 via the NFL’s performance-based pay program, which rewards gamers who play sizable roles on groups whereas not essentially having the bottom salaries to again it up.
