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If Aaron Rodgers doesn’t want to play for the Packers this year, he won’t have to, but if he decides to sit down, it will be a costly decision that could cost him more than $35 million.
Rodgers insisted he won’t play for the Packers this year and the Packers insisted they wouldn’t trade him, which created a stalemate. The ongoing confrontation between the two sides has already cost the quarterback $500,000 and that number could rise to nearly $600,000 by the end of the week.
The governor’s NFL MVP was not attending the first day of mini camp on Tuesday, and since it’s a mandatory practice, the Packers are allowed to fine him for a miss. If Rodgers skips all three days of mini-camp, he will be fined a total of $93,085. (The packers can get him out of the fine by describing his non-attendance as an excused absence)
If he is fined, that would be higher than the $500,000 Rodgers lost when he failed to show up for the team’s off-season training activities. The quarterback had a $500,000 bonus in his contract that he would have had if he showed up for a certain percentage of OTAs, but he didn’t earn the bonus because he skipped every practice.
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The next event on the NFL calendar is training camp and things could get very expensive for Rodgers if he decides to skip it. Under a collective bargaining agreement, players can be fined $50,000 per day for not attending training camp. Packers generally go to camp for about 35 days (they had 34 during their last regular boot camp in 2019) and if he skips every one of those practices, it will cost him $1.75 million.
If things get so bad that Rodgers decides to stay out for the entire season, it will become even more expensive for the midfielder. Not only will he lose his base salary of $14.7 million, but he will also lose his bonus of $6.8 million that was paid out in March. The quarterback will also get $11.5 million in signing bonus that packers can go after, and if he loses that, that totals up to $33 million for those three things alone.
If you combine the $33 million with $1.75 million in bootcamp fines plus the unearned OTA bonus plus $93,085 in small-camp fines, that’s $35,343,085 for Rodgers to lose.
If the Packers are going to play hard ball and refuse to trade their star quarterback, Rodgers will have to decide that out of the season is worth $35 million. Of course, Rodgers has made over $240 million in his career – not including endorsements – so if he really doesn’t want to play with the Packers again, he probably won’t let money be a factor in his decision.
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