While the big payday for Denver Broncos cornerback Riley Moss won’t likely come until after next season, this 1 should do for now.
Moss was one of the NFL’s top earners in the league’s annual performance-based incentives program announced Monday — the bonus system the league uses to pay players with low salaries who play high snap counts.
Moss scored a $1.136 million bonus after starting all 17 games in 2025. It ranked Moss No. 12 among all NFL players who received bonuses, with Chicago Bears cornerback Nahson Wright coming in 1st with a $1.441 million bonus.
“Some exceptional players on that list — including Riley Moss toward the top,” Broncos fan Ron Caphill wrote on X. “Hopefully, Broncos Country appreciates and understands this.”
The NFL’s incentives-based program has been around since 2002 and has distributed approximately $3.8 billion over the last 24 years.
“NFL players will receive more than $542 million in Performance-Based Pay for their performance during the 2025 season,” NFL public relations officer Brian McCarthy wrote on X. “The Performance-Based Pay program is a collectively bargained benefit that compensates all players based upon their playing time and salary levels.”
Bonus Almost Equal to Entire Salary in 2025
Moss just finished the 3rd season of the 4-year, $5.4 million rookie contract he signed after he was a 3rd round pick (No. 83 overall) in the 2023 NFL draft.
That contract paid him approximately $1.2 million in 2025 — meaning his bonus almost doubled his pay this year.
“Performed-Based bonuses know more ball than you if you think Riley Moss sucks,” 5280 Sports Group’s In The Nix of Time wrote on their official X account.
While it doesn’t seem like the Broncos are making paying a priority at this point this offseason, there’s a good chance he never hits the open market and could score a midseason payday like the one edge rusher Jonathon Cooper did in 2024 — a 4-year, $60 million extension right before the NFL trade deadline.
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