Last week, we wrote about what incentives could have been earned during the Jets game. So who ended up cashing in their incentives for the 2018 season and who missed out?
Summary: A total of $2.15 million in incentives could have been earned on December 30:
- Julian Edelman (two touchdowns) - $500,000
- Lawrence Guy (fifty percent play-time) - $400,000
- James White (93 total yards from scrimmage) - $250,000
- Duron Harmon (sixty percent play-time) - $250,000
- Dont'a Hightower (70 percent play-time) - $250,000
- Hightower (75 percent play-time) - $250,000
- Jason McCourty (80 percent play-time) - $200,000
- Phillip Dorsett (three receptions ) - $50,000
- Edelman fell short by one touchdown.
- Guy played over 53 percent of the snaps on Sunday, so he ended the year with exactly 50 percent play-time.
- White finished 27 total yards from scrimmage -- short of his goal of 1,200 total yards from scrimmage.
- Harmon played over 80 percent of the snaps to easily surpass 60 percent play-time for the year.
- Hightower played over 85 percent of the snaps to easily surpass 70 percent play-time for the year - $250,000.
- Hightower needed to play close to all of the snaps in a game in which the Patriots defense was on the field for at least 62 snaps. Against the Jets, the Pats defense was on the field for only 57 snaps, so Hightower missed earning this incentive by several snaps.
- McCourty played just enough snaps to go over the 80 percent play-time threshold -- by just one snap.
- Dorsett had five receptions, putting him over the thirty marker threshold.
Background
- League cap number
- Prior year carryover adjustments for Likely To Be Earned (LTBE)/Not Likely To Be Earned (NLTBE) incentives
- Adjustments for Likely To Be Earned (LTBE)/Not Likely To Be Earned (NLTBE) incentives. In 2017, the Patriots were debited a total of $1,006,553 against their 2017 adjusted cap number because of LTBE/NTLBE calculations.
Vince Wilfork
Earned LTBE incentives:
Unearned LTBE incentives:
Earned NTLBE incentives:
Unearned NLTBE incentives:
not
Rob Gronkowski
James Develin
AND
bolding the earned incentives
italicizing the unearned incentives.
Tom Brady
Unearned -- Brady finished 12th with a passer rating of 97.7
Unearned -- Brady finished 18th with a completion percentage of 65.8
Unearned -- Brady finished 13th with a YPA of 7.64
Unearned -- Brady finished 10th with 29 touchdown passes
Unearned -- Brady finished seventh with 4,355 passing yards
Matthew Slater
Unearned
John Simon
Unearned since Simon's play-time percentage for the year was 17.66 percent.
Unearned since Simon's play-time percentage for the year was 17.66 percent.
Dwayne Allen
Unearned -- Allen's play-time percentage for the year was 32.32 percent.
Unearned -- Allen caught three balls this year.
Unearned -- Allen's play-time percentage for the year was 32.32 percent.
Unearned -- Allen's play-time percentage for the year was 32.32 percent.
James Develin
Earned, since Develin's play-time percentage for the year was 35.45 percent.
David Andrews
Earned, since Andrews' play-time percentage for the year was 98.6 percent.
Lawrence Guy
Earned, since Guy's play-time percentage for the year ended up being exactly 50 percent (521 of 1,042 snaps).
Unearned, since Guy played in 50 percent of the defensive snaps.
Duron Harmon
Earned, since Harmon's play-time percentage for the year was 61.23 percent.
Unearned -- Harmon played in 61.2 percent of the defensive snaps.
Jason McCourty
Earned, since Jason's play-time percentage for the year was 80.04 percent. Jason made the 80 percent cutoff by just one snap.
Julian Edelman
- 1,057 receiving yards.
- 70 receptions plus seven TDs.
- 80 receptions plus Super Bowl appearance.
- 80 catches AND 13 wins
Unearned, since Edelman ended the season with 74 receptions, 6 touchdowns, and 850 receiving yards while the Patriots ended their regular season with eleven wins
* Rob Gronkowski had four NLTBE $1,100,000 incentives, but he can only be paid for earning three of them. They were for:
- Scoring nine touchdowns incentive
- Catching 70 passes
- Having 1,085 receiving yards
- Playing in 80 percent of the snaps
Unearned -- Gronkowski ended the season with 47 receptions, 3 touchdowns, 682 receiving yards and a 75 play-time percentage
Ryan Allen
Unearned.
Kyle Van Noy
Earned, since Van Noy's play-time percentage for the year was 90.69 percent.
Dont'a Hightower
Unearned.
Unlikely to be earned, given the performance of other linebackers around the league.
Earned, since Hightower's play-time percentage for the year was 74.09 percent.
Earned, since Hightower's play-time percentage for the year was 74.09 percent.
Unearned -- Hightower's play-time percentage for the year was 74.09 percent.
Hightower
Unearned -- Hightower's play-time percentage for the year was 74.09 percent.
LaAdrian Waddle
Earned, since Waddle's play-time percentage for the year was 30.4 percent.
Unearned -- Waddle's play-time percentage for the year was 30.4 percent.
Adrian Clayborn
Unearned since Clayborn's play-time percentage for the year was 31.93 percent.
Unearned -- Clayborn's play-time percentage for the year was 31.93 percent.
Unearned -- Clayborn's play-time percentage for the year was 31.93 percent.
Phillip Dorsett
Earned since Dorsett ended the season with 32 receptions.
Unearned -- Dorsett ended the season with 32 receptions.
James White
Earned, since White's play-time percentage for the year was 53.6 percent.
Unearned -- White's play-time percentage for the year was 53.6 percent.
Earned, since White ended up with 1,176 yards from scrimmage
Unearned -- White with 1,176 yards from scrimmage ended the season24 yards short of earning this incentive
Rex Burkhead
Unearned since Burkhead's play-time percentage for the year was 13.3 percent.
Unearned -- Burkhead ended the 2018 season with 317 total yards
Cordarrelle Patterson
Unearned.
Unearned -- Patterson's play-time percentage for the year was 21.61 percent.
Unearned -- Patterson caught 21 passes during 2018.
- Guy's $400,000 50 percent play-time incentive
- Harmon's $250,000 60 percent play-time incentive
- McCourty's $200,000 40 percent play-time incentive
- McCourty's $200,000 50 percent play-time incentive
- McCourty's $200,000 60 percent play-time incentive
- McCourty's $200,000 70 percent play-time incentive
- McCourty's $200,000 80 percent play-time incentive
- Andrews's $250,000 65 percent play-time incentive
- Andrews's $450,000 85 percent play-time incentive
- Develin's $100,000 20 percent play-time incentive
- Develin's $100,000 30 percent play-time incentive
- White's $250,000 50 percent play-time incentive
- White's $250,000 1,000 total scrimmage yards incentive
- Dorsett's $50,000 30 receptions incentive
- Hightower's $375,000 65 percent play-time incentive
- Hightower's $250,000 70 percent play-time incentive
- Van Noy's $375,000 80 percent play-time incentive
- Waddle's $250,000 20 percent play-time incentive
Unearned: $5,675,000
Earned: $2,550,000
$5,675,000
Summary for NLTBE incentives
Unearned: $13,175,000
Earned: $1,800,000
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