Listed here are how Wilson and Jameis Winston‘s contracts break down to reflect their dynamic entering the spring, with Wilson poised to take the first-team snaps, Winston lined up as the No. 2 and a possible rookie draft pick arriving in East Rutherford, N.J., soon:
RUSSELL WILSON: one year, $10.5 million, $10 million guaranteed, up to $10.5 million more in incentives
Wilson, 36, is receiving $8 million of his $10.5 million in 2025 as a signing bonus paid in three installments between April and October. His guaranteed 2025 salary is only $2 million, and he has a $500,000 offseason workout bonus. His cap charge will be $11.029 million because of $529,412 in incentives that are classified as “likely to be earned” based on his previous stats.
The $10.5 million available in incentives is the most interesting part of Wilson’s deal: he can earn as much as $3 million additional on a “playtime and wins incentive” clause and one other $7.5 million tied to the playoffs, enjoying time, passer ranking and completion proportion.
The playtime and wins incentive states that Wilson will obtain a bonus of $176,470.59 for each recreation through which Wilson participates in 50% or extra of the staff’s whole offensive performs and the Giants win.
It’s comprehensible, due to this fact, why Wilson was so adamant that he intends to be on the sphere enjoying fairly than on the sideline mentoring.
The presence of that clause additionally ought to lead the Giants to present Wilson an actual probability at holding the beginning job early within the season to earn his cash. In any other case, they is perhaps accused of performing in dangerous religion with a clause like that within the wonderful print.
On the flip aspect, if and when the Giants hypothetically resolve to pivot to Winston or a rookie like Shedeur Sanders, Jaxson Dart, Quinn Ewers or Jalen Milroe, that clause permits them to hedge on simply how a lot they’ve invested in a one-year rental who didn’t produce and isn’t lengthy for the Huge Apple.
Not that Joe Schoen and the Giants would thoughts if Wilson cashed in round $2 million of that playtime and wins incentive. If he does, Schoen and Brian Daboll will nonetheless have jobs in 2026.
JAMEIS WINSTON: two years, $8 million, $5.25 million assured, as much as $8 million extra in incentives
Winston’s assured cash is unfold throughout each his 2025 and 2026 salaries, which might hold Winston cheaply because the Giants’ bridge into 2026 if Schoen drafts a developmental rookie to groom and take over the offense subsequent yr.
Winston, 31, acquired a $2 million signing bonus. His $1.95 million wage this season is totally assured. And $1.3 million of his scheduled $3.95 million wage for 2026 is assured, as properly. His deal features a $50,000 offseason exercise bonus in every season, and his cap costs are $3 million for 2025 and $5 million for 2026.
He additionally has $8 million of incentives constructed into his contract: as much as $4 million in 2025 and as much as $4 million in 2026. So he can earn as much as $16 million on the two-year contract if he hits these markers.
The Giants wouldn’t thoughts if he hit these incentives, since there may be $2 million every season tied to creating the playoffs and profitable postseason video games.
Alternatively, the opposite $2 million in incentives every season pertains to minimums in enjoying time, passer ranking, completion proportion and landing passes. So if Winston reaches these stats, it means the funding on Wilson fell by means of.
