Life as a backup could go pretty well for Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Nick Foles.
The team recently restructured the contract of the Super Bowl LII MVP to provide him with more incentives and a mutual option for the 2019 season.
Those incentives include $250,000 for each game in which he plays at least one-third of the snaps, according to Field Yates of ESPN. That number doubles if the Eagles win the game.
Each of those numbers doubles again in the playoffs, which would give him a total of $1 million for each postseason victory when he plays one-third of the snaps.
Should the Eagles go 16-0 with Foles playing 33 percent of the snaps in each game, he'll earn a total of $8 million.
If he plays at least one-third of the snaps over the course of the season as a whole, he'll earn $1 million, or $1.5 million if he plays 50 percent of snaps. He'll also earn $500,000 if named to the original Pro Bowl ballot.
Foles' chances of earning all of his regular-season incentives up to a total of $14 million depend on the health of starter Carson Wentz. Should Wentz be cleared to begin the 2018 season following the ACL surgery that prematurely ended his potential MVP 2017 campaign, Foles could end up with just his $4-million base salary and $2-million signing bonus.
