Pittsburgh Steelers tackle Chukwuma Okorafor just finished his third season in the NFL in the team’s Sunday night playoff loss to the Cleveland Browns and now the Western Michigan product and former third-round draft pick will look ahead to improving his craft during the upcoming offseason. Okorafor can also look forward to getting a substantial increase in pay in 2021 because of him qualifying for the NFL’s Proven Performance Escalator in 2020 due to the number of snaps that he played.
In the league’s new CBA, the Proven Performance Escalator is now a three-level, non-negotiable amount in which a player’s base salary in the fourth year of his rookie contract increases if he meets certain predetermined thresholds.