Delay in performance-based pay raises tax concerns

Rumors have been circulating for days that, in order to push the 2013 salary cap to $123 million per team, the NFLPA agreed to delay by two years the issuance of checks for performance-based pay earned in 2013. NFLPA spokesman George Atallah tells Liz Mullen of SportsBusiness Daily that, indeed, payment for 2013 performance-based pay…