And the No. 1 reason the NFL's rookie salary scale is ridiculous ... Super Bowl-winning quarterback Russell Wilson is the third highest-paid quarterback on his own team.
USA TODAY Sports' For the Win reported Tuesday that the Seattle Seahawks' trade for Terrelle Pryor in exchange for a seventh-round draft pick will cost the Super Bowl XLVIII champions $705,000 in 2014.
That put him in a higher tax bracket than Wilson, who guided the Seahawks to the franchise's first-ever championship last season.
USA TODAY Sports reported that backup Tavaris Jackson, who was the team's starter in 2011 before going to the Buffalo Bills in 2012 and back to Seattle as Wilson's backup, will earn $1.25 million in 2014. According to seahawks.com, the Seattle coaches felt Jackson was better last season than he was as the team's starter two year prior to that.
Wilson, who signed a four-year, $2.99 million contract with the Seahawks in 2012, will make $662,434. He has won four playoff games in two seasons and serves as the primary reason the Seahawks have money to spend on other player to compete with the likes of the Denver Broncos, who are paying their starting quarterback, Peyton Manning, $18 million.
The same Manning, whose Broncos lost 43-8 to the Seahawks in February.
According to USA TODAY Sports, the Seahawks are not to blame for the discrepancy.
"It's not any stinginess by the Seahawks," the report said. "Under the 2011 Collective Bargaining Agreement, the four-year contracts signed by draft picks can't be renegotiated until after a player's third season. Wilson is entering his third season in the league. His payday is coming next offseason."
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