The players on the winning team in Sunday’s Super Bowl LIX will receive $171,000 apiece. But for Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts, $2 million is riding on the outcome of the NFL championship game against the Kansas City Chiefs. It’s in the former Alabama QB’s contract.

Hurts has four seasons remaining on a five-year, $255 million contract extension. If the Eagles win Super Bowl LIX, the base salary for each of those seasons will increase by $500,000.

Hurts’ remaining base salaries are $1.17 million in 2025, $1.215 million in 2026, $1.345 million in 2027 and $1.4 million in 2028.

If they seem low for a player on a $255 million contract, Hurts will be due option bonuses of $40.83 million in 2025, $49.785 million in 2026, $49.655 million in 2027 and $49.6 million in 2028.

Hurts’ counterpart in Super Bowl LIX, Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes, also has an annual base-salary escalator in his contract tied to the Super Bowl, but in Mahomes’ case, the jump is $1.25 million if the Chiefs win.

Mahomes has seven seasons remaining on a 10-year, $450,000 contract.

The Eagles and Chiefs square off in Super Bowl LIX at 5:30 p.m. CST Sunday at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. FOX will televise the game.

The players on the losing team in Sunday’s game will receive $92,000 apiece.

But a Super Bowl win would be worth $357,000 apiece to each Philadelphia player and $352,000 apiece to each Kansas City player in postseason bonuses.

The difference lies in the first round of the playoffs.

This season, the Chiefs had a bye as the No. 1 seed in the AFC playoffs and the Eagles were the No. 2 seed in the NFC playoffs.

On Wild-Card Weekend, Philadelphia defeated the Green Bay Packers 22-10, and because the Eagles were the NFC East champions, each player received $54,500. As the No. 1 seed in the AFC, Kansas City got a first-round bye, and each of its players received $49,500 for the Wild-Card Weekend – the amount a wild-card qualifier would receive for the first round.

In the Divisional Round, each player on the Eagles and Chiefs received $54,500, and for the conference-championship games, they got $77,000 apiece.

Winners and losers get paid the same in the conference playoffs (except wild-card qualifiers and teams with byes get $5,000 less per player than division winners in the first round), while Super Bowl LIX includes a monetary incentive to win.

In combined postseason money, each member of the Eagles will have earned $357,000 during the postseason if Philadelphia wins Super Bowl LIX and $282,000 if it doesn’t. For the Chiefs, the playoff haul would be $5,000 fewer for each player in both cases.

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That’s in straight game checks, before taxes, and doesn’t include any incentives a player might have in his contract that reward a bonus for reaching or winning the Super Bowl – as Hurts has.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at @AMarkG1.