Offensive lineman Andrew Wylie, who last weekend earned the Chiefs’ Mack Lee Hill Rookie of the Year Award at the annual 101 Awards banquet in Kansas City, on Thursday pocketed a cool $311,406 in bonus money per the league’s collective bargaining agreement with the players’ union.
But he wasn’t the highest-bonused player on the Chiefs’ roster when the annual performance-based and veterans-pool distributions were calculated and announced by the league. That honor went to cornerback Kendall Fuller, who pulled down a cool $434,762 in combined performance-based and veteran-pool money, the 12th-highest figure in the NFL.
Funded as benefits via league-wide revenue and the NFLPA, such payouts are intended to give players on less valuable contracts additional income based on their playing time in a given season — in this case, 2018.