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Broncos CB Pat Surtain will get a massive pay raise in 2025

February 26, 2024 by Broncos Wire

The NFL’s rising salary cap is good news for everyone, including Denver Broncos cornerback Pat Surtain.

After the league set the 2024 salary cap at $255.4 million, we now know how much a fifth-year option will cost for players picked in the first round of the 2021 NFL draft.

A cornerback who did not hit a playing time incentive or earn any Pro Bowl selections would earn $12,472,000 on a fifth-year option in 2025. Hitting the playtime criteria increases it to $13,377,000. Earning one Pro Bowl selection jumps to $17,215,000. Making a second Pro Bowl makes it $19,802,000.

Surtain played 95% of Denver’s defensive snaps over the last three seasons and he earned two Pro Bowl nods. So if (when) the Broncos exercise his fifth-year option, Surtain will be set to earn more than $19.8 million in 2025.

That will mark a huge increase from Surtain’s cap hit in 2024 ($6,669,983), and it’s almost as much as PS2 will earn through his first four seasons ($20,962,802). It’s still a bargain, though, as at least six cornerbacks are set to have cap hits north of $21 million in 2025.

Picking up Surtain’s fifth-year option will likely be a placeholder to give Denver time to negotiate an eventual long-term contract extension. The deadline to pick up Surtain’s option for the 2025 season in May 2.

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