COLORADO, USA — Elijah Wilkson and Alexander Johnson played themselves into millionaires.
Wilkinson was supposed to make a $645,000 salary as a third-year player last year. But when right tackle Ja'wuan James went down for all but a full game worth of plays, Wilkinson played so much he picked up a $443,000 year-end performance pay and veteran bonus.
So Wilkinson's pay was $1,088,000, which he more than deserved considering he started 12 games at right tackle and finished 15 of 16.
The bonus earned by the linebacker Johnson almost doubled his $570,00 salary as he picked up another $430,108 in veteran and performance-based bonus -- giving him $1,000,108 for the season.
Performance bonuses are based on a formula that computes a player's salary and his playing time. The lower the salary and greater the playing time leads to a richer performance bonus. Rookies don't get the veteran performance bonus so second- and third-year players tend to get the top combined bonuses -- as was the case with Wilkinson and Johnson this year.
Eleven Broncos received combined performance bonuses of at least $205,000 and 27 got bonuses of at least $110,000.
Here are the performance-based bonuses for each of the Broncos' 65 players:
Player …………….. Performance pay …. Vet pay .....… Total
Elijah Wilkinson ..............… $250,783 … $192,217 … $443,000
Alexander Johnson ........… $256,270 … $173,838 … $430,108
Davontae Harris .............… $185,345 … $125,044 … $310,389
Isaac Yiadom .............……. $159,673 … $122,996 … $282,669
DaeSean Hamilton .........… $161,375 … $121,280 … $282,655
Phillip Lindsay .............….… $162,845… $110,870 … $273,715
Mike Purcell ............……… $148,927 … $114,017 … $262,944
Malik Reed ………............. $240,810 ...........… $0 … $240,810
Courtland Sutton ................ $110,742 … $115,609 … $226,351
Jeremiah Attaochu ...........… $121,938 … $93,091 … $215,029
Justin Simmons …................ $94,188 … $111,481 … $205,669
Connor McGovern ............... $90,924 … $106,872 … $197,796
Duke Dawson ...............…… $107,882 … $88,831 … $196,713
Josey Jewell ..............……… $111,209 … $83,895 … $195,104
Royce Freeman …................ $101,732 … $87,926 … $189,658
Tim Patrick ..............…………. $96,056 … $65,158 … $161,214
Andrew Beck ……................. $158,326 ........…. $0 … $158,326
Dalton Risner ………........…. $146,892 .........… $0 … $146,892
Trey Marshall ……….........… $146,218 .........… $0 … $146,218
Garett Bolles …….............….. $65,881 … $77,978 … $143,859
Joe Jones ….........…………… $59,215 … $77,257 … $136,472
Troy Fumagalli ….................... $81,973 … $51,561 … $133,534
Justin Hollins ………….......... $124,345 ........… $0 … $124,345
Austin Schlottmann .............. $123,646 ........… $0 …. $123,646
Will Parks ............................… $64,610 … $54,587 … $119,197
Adam Gotsis …....................... $60,229 … $51,412 … $111,641
Fred Brown ………................ $110,398 .........… $0 … $110,398
Corey Nelson ......................… $42,605 … $55,807 … $98,412
DeVontae Booker …................ $43,829 … $49,627 … $93,456
Dre’Mont Jones ……...................….. $92,635 … $0 … $92,635
Shelby Harris …....................... $41,190 … $48,753 … $89,943
Brandon Allen ......................… $38,505 … $50,437 … $88,942
De’Vante Bausby................. … $36,679 … $47,624 … $84,303
DeMarcus Walker ................… $39,591 … $44,501 … $84,092
Diontae Spencer ….................. $81,404 .........… $0 … $81,404
Colby Wadman .....................… $30,842 … $45,466 … $76,308
Andy Janovich ......................… $38,610 … $36,466 …$75,076
Todd Davis ............................… $32,960 … $39,012 … $71,972
Jake Rodgers …………......…… $62,794 ….......... $0 … $62,794
Noah Fant ….............................. $56,036 ..........… $0 … $56,036
Kareem Jackson .....................… $29,858 … $25,226 … $55,084
Casey Kreiter ……....................... $26,247 … 25,889 … $52,136
Josh Watson................................... … $48,710 … $0 … $48,710
Jeff Heuerman …....................... $25,679 … $21,696 … $47,375
Drew Lock .................................…….. $44,372 … $0 … $44,372
Joe Flacco …….................……. $23,673 … $20,001 … $43,674
Chris Harris Jr. ....................….. $18,697 … $15,797 … $34,494
Ron Leary ….................………. $17,714 … $14,966 … $32,680
Keishawn Bierria ..................… $13,410 … $18,644 … $32,054
Jonathan Harris ....................... $22,543 .........… $0 …. $22,543
Ahmad Gooden ........................ $22,090 ........… $0 … $22,090
Juwann Winfree ...................… $21,654 …......... $0 … $21,654
Cody Sensabaugh ................... $11,998 ...... $9,160 … $21,158
Derek Wolfe ……….................. $10,493 …... $8,866 … $19,359
Patrick Morris ……...............…. $17,550 ….......... $0 … $17,550
Bradley Chubb …..................….. $8,058 ...… $7,280 … $15,338
Brandon McManus .................… $7,317 ...… $6,182 … $13,499
Von Miller ………….............…… $7,063 ....… $5,967 … $13,030
Emmanuel Sanders ...............… $5,986 ….... $5,058 … $11,044
River Cracraft ……….............…. $3,909 ....… $5,763 .… $9,672
Alijah Holder …................……… $8,070 ...........… $0 … $8,070
Kyle Peko …………….............… $3,408 ....… $4,465 … $7,873
Ja’Wuan James …….................. $1,501 ......… 1,776 … $3,277
Quinn Bailey ……..............……. $1,856 ............… $0 … $1,856
Deyon Sizer ………............…… $1,818 ............… $0 … $1,818
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