Could Players Cheat The Tax Code?

[BFritz21]

NFL contracts are taxed at 37%, but bonuses are only taxed at 22% until they hit a million dollars, so why don’t they just classify any money outside of what’s guaranteed as a bunch of bonuses for less than a million dollars?

It could be something as easy as listing it as a bonus for practices practiced or games played.

Or is it over a million for the entire year and not just individual paychecks?