New Headline: 'Contract Boom': Goncalves Eyes $1M in Bonnier's Year-End Offer
The Colts' Matt Goncalves was among the players to earn a Performance-Based Pay bonus for his 2025 season.
Indianapolis Colts ' offensive lineman Matt Goncalves is among the NFL players to receive a Performance-Based Pay bonus for his play during the 2025 season. Goncalves will receive $1. 083 million from this program, the 18th-most out of all NFL players.
This is more than Goncalves' 2025 base salary of $1. 06 million . So what is the Performance-Based Pay program?
Here is a brief explanation from NFL. com: "Under the Performance-Based Pay program, a fund is created and used as a supplemental form of player compensation based upon a comparison of playing time to salary. Players become eligible to receive a bonus distribution in any regular season in which they play at least one official down.
In general, players with higher playtime percentages and lower salaries benefit most from the pool. " #Colts OL Matt Goncalves received an additional $1,083,538 in performance-based pay for the 2025 season, the NFL announced. That was the 18th-highest payout in the league.